The rectangular object dates to around 1350 B.C.E. and was likely created by members of the Central European Urnfield culture ...

At the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Rhodes became one of the most fiercely contested islands in history. This episode traces its rise from Bronze Age settlement and Greek power to ...

Chemical clues in ancient bones reveal how diet, especially millet consumption, helped define social identity in Bronze Age Poland.

Harrison began surfing in 1925 at age 12 and was among the first to ride waves at San Onofre Beach in the mid-1930s. He also ...

On “The Fire Masters: The Bronze Age in France 2300–800 B.C.,” at the National Archaeological Museum of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. When we call the Bronze Age (2300–800 B.C.) prehistoric, that does not ...

PULA, CROATIA—Croatia Week reports that researchers from Juraj Dobrila University of Pula conducted an excavation at Vrh Kosir, a Bronze Age burial mound on the island of Veli Brijunin in Croatia’s ...

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Dubbed a super ship, the Svaelget 2 is nearly 92 feet long and was likely built around 1410.

Archaeologists have unearthed the largest-ever medieval “super ship” dating back to the 1400s, a discovery that prompts a rethink of the scale of medieval trade across northern Europe. Built around ...

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...