Ben Birch explores what we can learn from the statues we walk past each day, but never really notice I think there’s an ...

The large disk is covered in a thin layer of gold on one side and decorated with spirals, which are commonly found on Nordic Bronze Age artifacts, according to Flemming Kaul, curator of the ...

Scientists have already been able to determine that the found monuments belong to three eras – the Bronze Age, the early Iron Age and the Middle Ages. This chronological diversity offers valuable ...

Scientists dig up how diet changed and transformed society during the Bronze Age. Scientists dig up how diet changed and transformed society during the Bronze Age. People these days are swapping ...

The bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom has shed new light on an important period in Central European history. An international research team – led by ...

Buried near the threshold of a Bronze Age house, the bread was seemingly used in a ritual related to fertility or abundance. It not only offers insights about ancient baking processes, but also gives ...

A modern bakery recreated a 5,000-year-old bread recipe after archaeologists in Turkey unearthed a Bronze Age loaf of bread. Image: Freshly prepared ball of dough for bread. Credit: Chris Zúniga / CC ...

HAMA, SYRIA—Bronze Age potters working in the city of Hama in current-day Syria appear to have sold more than just cups, bowels, and dishes 4,500 years ago—they apparently also sold children ...

One clue is a Bronze Age sword found in the 1920s in the Loukkos river. It was likely made in Britain or Ireland and may have arrived in Africa through Atlantic exchange networks. The sword was ...

This landscape was likely connected to other areas of the Atlantic and Mediterranean through a shared ritual and symbolic “language”. One clue is a Bronze Age sword found in the 1920s in the Loukkos ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Nineteen ceramic fragments from Hama, Syria, dating to the Early Bronze IV Period (ca. 2500–2000 BCE), have been reidentified as ancient baby rattles. Their ...