An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools out of bone persisted even ...

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Around 3300 BC, humans entered a new era that would change history forever. Bronze replaced stone, writing emerged, trade ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Bronze Age arrowheads have helped cast new light on an early ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 4,000-year-old massacre in Somerset, revealing the brutal slaughter and probable cannibalism of people in what is now believed to the bloodiest known act of ...

On a windswept promontory above the Irtysh River in eastern Kazakhstan, the outlines of a Bronze Age settlement have emerged ...

Recent research suggests that many of the Bronze Age people buried in Seddin, Germany, were not locals but came from outside the region. While archaeologists had previously uncovered artefacts from ...

Sea trials in a reconstruction of the c. 350 BC Hjortspring boat, akin to a Scandinavian Bronze Age type boat, with a side view drawing of the boat under full crew inserted above. Photo by Knut ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the secrets of a “vast” 3,500-year-old settlement in Kazakhstan thought to have been an early form of a city. Described as “one of the most remarkable discoveries” in the ...

People living in Bronze Age-era Denmark may have been able to travel to Norway directly over the open sea, according to a new study. To complete this study, the research team developed a new computer ...