The sword was discovered during archaeological excavations in Nördlingen, a town in the Donau-Ries district of Swabia, Bavaria. The weapon, which dates to the middle Bronze Age, is so remarkably ...

Excavations in Turkey have yielded two very small but very important pieces of fabric: ...

A new ancient-DNA study suggests the Bronze Age people who transformed Britain around 2400 BC didn’t arrive from Iberia, as older narratives of the “Bell Beaker” story sometimes implied. Instead, ...

An ancient Bronze Age settlement was recently uncovered by archaeologists in the United Kingdom while a highway was being built. The Suffolk City Council described the site as a "Late Bronze Age ...

Archaeologists in southern Germany have unearthed a rare, octagonal Bronze Age sword worthy of ...

I n 2023, archaeologists excavating a burial mound near the town of Nördlingen in Bavaria, Germany hit pay dirt: a grave dating back to the Bronze Age containing the remains of a man, woman, and child ...

Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of unusual discoveries suggest. Excavations at a roughly 4,000-year-old settlement near the ...

Skeleton of one of the two individuals who lived in the middle of the Bronze Age and whose complete genome was reconstructed and sequenced by the Lausanne team. It comes from the archaeological site ...

A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of Israel has stumbled upon a 3,300-year-old ship on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, its cargo still intact. The wreck was found about 56 miles ...