Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

Researchers used satellite images to help expose a societal landscape in Bronze Age Central Europe. The archaeological team discovered over 100 sites in a complex network, highlighting the largest ...

Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a time of enormous creativity and courage when ...

Long before classical Greece, the Cycladic islands formed one of the earliest and most influential maritime cultures in the Mediterranean. This chapter traces their rise from Neolithic seafarers to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Livestock and dairying were the key to the population boom and early symbols of civilization on the Eurasian Steppe during the Bronze Age, according to new research. A new study by the German Max ...

Two tombs and evidence of human activity dating back to the late bronze age, 1400 BC, were discovered during excavations carried out at the Dromolaxia-Vyzakia Hala Sultan Tekke, the antiquities ...

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 ...

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.