The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

Skeleton of one of the two individuals who lived in the middle of the Bronze Age and whose complete genome was reconstructed and sequenced by the Lausanne team. It comes from the archaeological site ...

A new study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled that large amounts of Bronze Age tin may have originated from Cornwall and Devon in southwest Britain, where the richest and most accessible tin ...

The study “radically transforms our understanding of social and economic relationships” in ancient civilizations. A new study has revealed the surprising role British innovation played in spurring ...

When treasure hunters Mario Renner and Henry Westphal turned on their metal detectors in 1999 and started sweeping the ground ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

The Minoans of Bronze Age Crete were unique in the Mediterranean for their rituals, including those pertaining to the snake ...

Archeologists have discovered at least six hoards of ancient artifacts on top of a volcanic hilltop. Finds at the site include spearheads, tusks of domestic boars, and objects associated with bronze ...

The only known figurines of Bronze Age charioteers from Europe are two small clay statuettes found by a Serbian farmer in the early twentieth century. The farmer likely came upon them while digging in ...

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...

New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an extraordinary Mediterranean-based trading network.