For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...

Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

A new study reveals that a song from Ugarit shares rhythmic patterns with Rig Veda, proving a song connects Bronze Age civilizations.

The well-preserved bronze artifact, estimated to be nearly 3,000 years old, was found just 8 inches deep in the forest floor, officials said. See it.

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The ...

Around 1200 B.C.E., the ancient world experienced one of its most dramatic and puzzling transformations,the Bronze Age ...

Laboratory tests conducted during University of Haifa study reveal that the bronze was produced on-site by alloying copper ...

During the Bronze Age in Greece, mythological gods existed. It is believed these were the basis for the ancient Greek gods ...

Around 1200 B.C.E., the ancient world experienced one of its most dramatic and puzzling upheavals, the Bronze Age Collapse. This widespread event saw the sudden decline and fall of several advanced ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy's shining walls, ...