A newly surveyed Bronze Age city shows unexpected urban planning and bronze production in the steppe. Archaeologists have ...

An immense Bronze Age settlement has emerged from the Kazakh Steppe, revealing a surprisingly urban and industrial society ...

A Late Bronze Age urn from Austria in roughly 1400-1300 BCE, containing cremated human remains. Scientists studying these processes typically look at two different types of burials—traditional ...

During the excavation of a known Roman battle site in the Swiss Alps, archaeologists chanced upon a hoard of 80 artifacts dating to the late Bronze Age. Some of the stand-out objects include sickles, ...

The area around Boeslunde had already yielded 10 gold oath rings and approximately 2,200 gold spirals in previous excavations. Museum director and archaeologist Lone Claudi-Hansen explained their ...

The remains of a 3,000-year-old village were recently discovered in a clay quarry called Must Farm in eastern England. The wooden houses were destroyed by fire, and the charred timbers gradually sank ...

The Bronze Age in the Near East and Aegean region began around 3000 B.C. It peaked in the 1500s B.C. and ended gradually, then suddenly, in the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 1200s and early ...

The volcanic eruption of Santorini rocked the Mediterranean and changed history. Crucial—and chilling—evidence from the ...

BUDAPEST — About 3,500 years ago, communities in Central Europe went through one of the most dramatic transformations in prehistoric history. New research reveals that this period saw major changes in ...

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, ...

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