An illegal discovery of a rusted bronze disc near Nebra, Germany, has revealed profound insights into Bronze Age ...

Over 3,000 years ago, the people of Bronze Age Poland burned their dead and placed their ashes in urns, often destroying the ...

A child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in ...

Bronze has been around almost as long as horology. First used in weaponry and decorations around 4,000 BC — roughly when the first water clocks appeared — it’s mankind’s oldest alloy. Concocted of ...

A newly identified 168‑site settlement on Georgia’s Javakheti Plateau reveals fortresses, ancient burial traditions, and occupation from the Bronze Age onward. Archaeologists discovered 168 ancient ...

This ‘Secrets of the Dead’ installment focuses on the 1986 discovery of a trove of buried artifacts with still-murky ...

The six mines ranged in size, stretching from smaller “extraction areas” to much larger and “substantial mining environments.

As hierarchies of merit go, it's got long historical legs, stretching all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Not — as many believe — to the ancient Olympic Games, however; those athletes just got ...