The sequencing of a genome extracted from the remains of an individual from ancient Egypt has revealed that 77.6% of their ...

New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

Was the Iberian Peninsula’s Bronze Age more advanced technologically than history has given it credit for? New study of the ...

Cyprus announced that excavations at the site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos made significant strides in understanding the Bronze age ...

Archaeologists uncover ancient walls in the Arabian desert, revealing Bronze Age settlements that reshaped early oasis life.

More information: R. Alan Williams et al, From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?, Antiquity (2025). DOI: 10.15184/aqy ...

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

The Bronze Age site Tell Deir Alla, located in central Jordan (Photo courtesy of ACOR) AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social ...

“Sometimes a single site can change our perceptions,” Schulting explains. Spanning roughly 2,500 to 800 BC, the Bronze Age was defined by advances in metalworking, agriculture and trade.

The bones are rare, direct evidence that point to a cycle of violence at a time during the Early Bronze Age that experts had once considered to be largely peaceful in Britain. Most of the hundreds ...