Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides of the Arabian Gulf resulted in shared musical traditions central to rituals and religious beliefs, Douglas’ team says.

Researchers examined the remains of 30 people (16 males and 14 females) buried in a Nubian Bronze Age cemetery in Sudan. One ...

Recent excavations at Başur Höyük, a Bronze Age settlement ... of a deliberate ritual assignment. Wingro proposed that the tombs reflected social rituals related to age and community roles ...

"The daggers likely had ritual significance with a religious or ideological background," said Tobias Mörtz, an expert in Bronze Age weapons deposits. Both daggers are currently at the University ...

A Bronze Age tomb has revealed a haunting ritual centered on the sacrifice of teenage girls. The findings, detailed in a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, reveal a ...

"The stone platform predates the standing stone itself, suggesting continuous ritual use of this site over hundreds of years, strongly linked to the water and the importance it held for Bronze Age ...

An amateur archaeologist recently encouraged researchers to take another look at the Farley Moor standing stone, which was once part of a bigger ceremonial site ...

Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine consumption must be fundamentally reconsidered.

"The stone platform predates the standing stone itself, suggesting continuous ritual use of this site over hundreds of years, strongly linked to the water and the importance it held for Bronze Age ...