Scientists have unraveled how an early form of Bronze Age plague that differed from the Black Death spread across Europe.

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

An international team of researchers, including U of A archaeologist Taylor Hermes, has found the first evidence of a Bronze Age plague infection in a non-human host. The discovery provides a missing ...

To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have built an ...

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early wolf management.

The excavation at Naḥal Rimmonim yielded the remains of seven individuals interred in jar burials and a grave dating, respectively, to Middle Bronze Age I–II and III. The MB I–II storage-jar burials ...

Archaeologists have gathered evidence from hundreds of Bronze Age sites in western Turkey that could be remnants of a ...

Learn about the first evidence of the Bronze Age plague in a non-human host, found in a sheep bone from Russia.