Bronze Age arrowheads have helped cast new light on an early large-scale battle over 3,000 years ago. Previous investigations in the Tollense Valley in northeastern Germany have uncovered evidence of ...

In the province of Salerno in southern Italy, the Grotte dell’Angelo is a karst system featuring a unique network of caverns ...

Dr Neil Wilkin, from the British Museum, said it was "very unusual" to find lead ingots from the Bronze Age, despite the material being essential in bronze casting. The finds date to about 900BCE, ...

Es Càrritx is often called a “cult cave” — so named because, approximately 3,600 years ago, it was host to various ritual activities. Now, a new analysis of hair samples from an island cave off the ...

So far, radiocarbon dating of materials found within the features suggests they had already been abandoned before theLate Bronze Age, placing them among the oldest known hunting megastructures in ...

A slab of stone, engraved with intricate lines and motifs dating to the Bronze Age, has been revealed to be Europe’s oldest map, researchers say. Using high-resolution 3D surveys and photogrammetry, ...

We have no written evidence about how people lived in Europe during the Bronze Age (2300–800 BCE), so archaeologists piece together their world from the artefacts and materials they left behind.

Nearly 4000 years ago, and 1500 years before Pompeii was buried by volcanic ash, the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri was ...

A team of researchers from University College Dublin, in collaboration with researchers from Serbia and Slovenia, has made a "mega" archaeological discovery. The team utilized satellite images and ...

A tomb unearthed in Spain has prompted archaeologists to reconsider assumptions about women’s power in Bronze Age European societies. By Jennifer Pinkowski About 3,700 years ago, a man and a woman ...