BCE, communities in Central Europe abandoned fortified towns, changed their diets, and became more equal. A new study shows ...

A bronze component of a carriage in the shape ... archaeological researchers found it difficult to ascertain detailed background information, such as where exactly they were found, how they ...

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.

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 ...

But around 4,000 years ago in the Early Bronze Age, a grisly chapter of British prehistory unfolded there. Thousands of human bones excavated in the 1970s and 1980s in a shaft that plunges about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient Greeks and the Romans considered Tyrian purple, first developed in the Bronze Age, an elite, royal color. But the recipe for the long-lasting pigment, made using Mediterranean sea snails ...