This was assumed to be inspired by the Hallstatt culture, a warrior society that used to dominate the late Bronze Age in Europe. The sword that was bent as part of a ritual was an actual weapon ...

Skeletal remains and skull fragments of two Bronze Age women were found at a construction site in the U.K. Their remains were found in Kent at a building site slated for 41 homes along with animal ...

Her previous research enabled her to link the sword with the Bronze Age and point out the mistake ... a settlement near the ancient Greek colony of Trebizond. After two years, experts conclusively ...

The artifacts included a gold box-weave chain with “sacral ivy,” a meter-long sword with a gold-coated hilt ... grave period before the construction of the palatial centers in Mycenaean Greece, ...

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum — and everyone within them — in ash. But more than 1,000 years before that, when Bronze Age villages ...

One of three clay cuneiform tablets discovered at the Middle Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan in northeast Iraq. It was found in a debris-filled corridor in the lower town palace. Early ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the ...

Amid the ruins of Metropolis—now modern-day İzmir, Turkey, known in ancient Greek as Smyrna—archaeologists unearthed what appears to be a historical scrapyard. This site, loaded with disassembled ...

Patrilocality is the most common system scientists have observed in European Neolithic, Copper, and Bronze Age ... know about Iron Age Britain largely comes from Roman and Greek writers and ...

Remembering the stars and other notable figures who've died this year, including Shannen Doherty, Shelley Duvall, Maggie ...

Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess ... eyes and her yellow teeth all reflected in the polished bronze. He lifted his sword. “Look at me! Look at me!” the Gorgon cried.