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

Excavations of burial sites have uncovered battle-scarred female archers, leading some archaeologists to posit that Amazons ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Remains of an extinct breed of Bronze Age cattle have been discovered by archaeologists in a cave in the Yorkshire Dales.

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

Israeli archaeologists recently discovered the first Bronze Age blade factory found in southern Israel, showing evidence of ...

It's likely the Bronze Age Britons used a variety of ways to mummify the dead, including temporarily placing them in bogs, smoking them over a fire or removing their organs after death, he said.

By Michael Casey May 21, 2015 / 1:59 PM EDT / CBS News One of the most significant finds of the Bronze Age, the remains of a teenage girl discovered in Denmark, is starting to give up her secrets.

Bronze Age artifacts used meteoric iron Date: December 4, 2017 Source: CNRS Summary: Though meteorites had already been recognized as one source of iron objects, the scientific community couldn't ...