By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be wild boars that were hunted. At the dawn of the Iron Age, some 500 years ...

Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

Alexander the Great visited the city of Troy while on his campaign against the Persian Empire. What did he do while he was there?

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

Set during the chaos of the Bronze Age collapse, Pharaoh was released to mixed reviews due to its small scope, with the map featuring just Egypt, Canaan and parts of Anatolia. A massive free ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

A study published by Dr Holly Winter in the journal Levant investigated the potential origin of Funerary Palaces in the ...

Old Copper Dagger in a Forest, Sheds Light on Transition From Stone Age to Bronze Age Piotr Gorlach from the Historical and ...