One of them, a postgraduate student from the University of Winchester, found a Bronze Age axe head in their collection. The museum wrote on Facebook: "Under guidance from professionals, volunteers ...

Step back in time to 3300 BCE and explore the Bronze Age, a period marked by the rise of early civilizations in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Learn about the cultures, innovations, and advancements in ...

AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social organisation, settlement character and economy. Settlements became walled, megalithic funerary ...

3,000 years earlier than the Viking Era, Bronze Age Scandinavians crossed open seas using paddle-powered boats. Credit: Public Domain A new study suggests that Bronze Age Scandinavians crossed open ...

Today, this Bronze Age clay tablet is the oldest customer complaint we know of – and it's a doozy. Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written ...

Archaeologists excavating a field in the municipality of Kutenholz in the Stade District, in Lower Saxony, Germany, have discovered two well-preserved Bronze Age daggers which are believed to date ...

ASTANA — Archaeologists in the Kostanai Region have intensified research into the Bronze Age settlement of Kamysty discovered in 1986. The latest excavations have uncovered artifacts and metallurgical ...

Around 4,000 years ago, women in Nubia were using tumplines, a form of head strap, to carry around goods and young children.

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research has established for the first time. Colleagues at the University of ...

or cast—perhaps somewhere in southern Europe—and subsequently imported into the area. To read about finds from a Bronze Age hillfort, go to "Piggy Playthings." ...

People living in Bronze Age-era Denmark may have been able to travel to Norway directly over the open sea, according to a study from the research program Maritime Encounters at the University of ...

Researchers compared direct open water journeys (110 km) and “coast-hugging” (700 km) voyages between Jutland and southwest Norway in the Early Nordic Bronze Age. These two areas are known to ...