The emergence of the Sea Peoples in the Late Bronze Age during a period of massive upheaval remains a mystery.

The Romans famously claimed to be descended from the Trojans, but does this legend have any basis in actuality?

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that radical inequality existed in burial practices among teenagers in Early ...

Aerial view of the Bronze Age site of Basur Höyük. Credit: Basur Höyük Excavation Project At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and ...

“To the North, there was increasing south Mesopotamian contact with North Syria and Anatolia, a process in which the Levant was, at least peripherally, involved,” added Philip from the University of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Bronze Age Scandinavians may have traveled directly over the open sea between Denmark and Norway, facilitated by a new computer model simulating such voyages ...

A wine shop sign in the ruins of the ancient Roman city Herculaneum’s main street. The sign tells viewers to 'come to the sign of the bowls' (ad cucumas). Some of the wines also have vintage ...

Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of unusual discoveries suggest. Excavations at a roughly 4,000-year-old settlement near ...

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 ...

The remains of a Late Bronze Age settlement "of considerable significance" were uncovered during the development of a new road, archaeologists said. A cremation cemetery with 18 burials ...