The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

Archaeologists have used cutting-edge technology to discover one of the largest feasts ever held in Britain at the end of the Bronze Age. In the most robust study of its kind, archaeologists from ...

The study “radically transforms our understanding of social and economic relationships” in ancient civilizations. A new study has revealed the surprising role British innovation played in spurring ...

Analysis of the remains of at least 37 individuals from Early Bronze Age England finds they were killed, butchered, and probably consumed before being thrown down a 15m-deep shaft. It is the ...

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into the era’s namesake gold-colored metal has long puzzled archaeologists. A big part of the answer lies in ...

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The extremely violent treatment of the corpses of at least 37 Bronze Age people is rewriting the history of prehistoric Britain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The newly discovered Bronze Age wheel at Must Farm (all photos by Dave Webb, © Cambridge Archaeological Unit) Archaeologists with the University of Cambridge have ...

Examples of cranial trauma. Top: Perimortem injury to the left posterior of the frontal bone (a), cutmarks can also be seen on the frontal bone (b) and patinated bevel of the internal cranial surface ...