Between c. 1400 and 1200 BC, impressive palaces were the focal points of power for the Mycenaeans in Bronze Age Greece.

In the study, "Inequality at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: The Case of Başur Höyük, a 'Royal' Cemetery at the Margins of the Mesopotamian World," published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal ...

A new study of 3,200-year-old trees in Turkey suggests that the mysterious collapse of several civilizations in the Late Bronze Age, from around 1200 to 1150 B.C., coincided with a severe three ...

Researchers described Tx1 as “the oldest blue fabric discovered in a Bronze Age context in Anatolia.” In ancient times, blue textiles were “very valuable,” “popular” and typically ...

An elite Bronze Age man had brain surgery more than 3,000 years ago By Ashley Strickland, CNN ... Mesopotamia and Anatolia, according to study coauthor Israel Finkelstein, ...

AMMAN — Due to its geographic location, Cyprus played a significant role in trade during the Late Bronze Age. The island has been located between Anatolia and Syria and a Hittite document dated to the ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In Early Bronze Age Anatolia, burial practices revealed significant inequality among adolescents, predating broader societal hierarchies.