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.

Wang Wei, a researcher in the Academic Division of History at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says Erlitou marked the first peak of the Bronze Age in China. “We have found older ...

Bronze Age Europeans earned and spent money in much the same way as we do today, indicating that the origins of the “market economy” are far more ancient than expected. That is the ...

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 ...

Detectorist David Stuckey discovered the hoard on land he had been searching for seven years A hoard of metal fragments found on farmland was the Bronze Age equivalent of a modern-day recycling ...

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.

NMS said some of the items showed Scotland's links to a wider network of communities across the North Sea A hoard of Bronze Age artefacts unearthed by a metal detectorist in the Borders has been ...

A hoard of metal fragments found on farmland was the Bronze Age equivalent of a modern-day recycling bin, an expert said. The stash of copper-alloy debris, dating back more than 2,000 years ...

The new Bronze Age wonder was detected last summer at a ... Image The Energean Star, background, detected the sunken ship last summer at a depth of about a mile during a survey of an uncharted ...