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

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 ...

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

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

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

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

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

The Epic of Gilgamesh, considered the oldest literary work of humanity, has been studied for centuries. Its influence has ...