The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

The study “radically transforms our understanding of social and economic relationships” in ancient civilizations. A new study has revealed the surprising role British innovation played in spurring ...

Analysis of the remains of at least 37 individuals from Early Bronze Age England finds they were killed, butchered, and probably consumed before being thrown down a 15m-deep shaft. It is the ...

Bronze Age Britons were cannibals who ate their enemies, suggests new research. Analysis of bones from at least 37 people, discovered in Somerset and dating back around 4,000 years, found they were ...

The newly discovered Bronze Age wheel at Must Farm (all photos by Dave Webb, © Cambridge Archaeological Unit) Archaeologists with the University of Cambridge have ...

The aftermath of an “exceptionally violent” attack in early Bronze Age England suggests that at least 37 people may have been “systematically dismembered” and eaten, new research has revealed. The ...

During excavations in Norfolk, in eastern England, archaeologists have come across a sound from the past. Buried for nearly 2,000 years, a bronze war trumpet (known as a carnyx) has emerged from the ...

New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an extraordinary Mediterranean-based trading network.

Examples of cranial trauma. Top) perimortem injury to the left posterior of the frontal bone (a), cutmarks can also be seen on the frontal bone (b) and patinated bevel of the internal cranial surface ...

Examples of cranial trauma. Top: Perimortem injury to the left posterior of the frontal bone (a), cutmarks can also be seen on the frontal bone (b) and patinated bevel of the internal cranial surface ...