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

An immense Bronze Age settlement has emerged from the Kazakh Steppe, revealing a surprisingly urban and industrial society ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Around 1200 BCE, the great empires of the eastern Mediterranean — the Hittites, the Mycenaeans, and the city-states of the ...

A lost Bronze Age metropolis has reappeared from beneath the soil of central Asia, its streets and fortifications resurfacing ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Archaeologists have uncovered the secrets of a “vast” 3,500-year-old settlement in Kazakhstan thought to have been an early form of a city. Described as “one of the most remarkable discoveries” in the ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.