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Bronze Age

Bronze Age Man’s Grape-Sized Kidney Stone Points to Chronic Infection
Archaeology
Bronze Age Man’s Grape-Sized Kidney Stone Points to Chronic Infection
A 5,300-year-old man buried in a kurgan in southwestern Russia carried a stone about 2.1 cm…
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Akrotiri: Greece’s Bronze Age Pompeii Where No Bodies Were Found
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Akrotiri: Greece’s Bronze Age Pompeii Where No Bodies Were Found
A volcano buried the Bronze Age town of Akrotiri on Santorini about 3,600 years ago, yet…
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A 3,300-Year-Old Bronze Sword, Still Sharp, Pulled from Italy’s Lake Mezzano
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A 3,300-Year-Old Bronze Sword, Still Sharp, Pulled from Italy’s Lake Mezzano
Divers recovered a Late Bronze Age sword with a sharp edge, plus axes, daggers and a…
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Why Minoan Crete Grew While Mainland Greece Emptied Out
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Why Minoan Crete Grew While Mainland Greece Emptied Out
A 2026 review by historian Sukru Unar suggests the 4.2-kiloyear climate event cannot fully explain why…
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Ancient Ochre Paintings Found in Rock Shelters of Uzbekistan’s Nurata Mountains
Archaeology
Ancient Ochre Paintings Found in Rock Shelters of Uzbekistan’s Nurata Mountains
Archaeologists in Uzbekistan's Samarkand region found ochre paintings in several rock shelters, tentatively dated to the…
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A 2,800-Year-Old Square Building at Seddin May Have Hosted Bronze Age Rituals
Archaeology
A 2,800-Year-Old Square Building at Seddin May Have Hosted Bronze Age Rituals
Archaeologists in Brandenburg uncovered an almost square building from about 850 BC near the famous Seddin…
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In Türkiye, a dog’s paw prints survive on a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age mudbrick from a burned house
Archaeology
In Türkiye, a dog’s paw prints survive on a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age mudbrick from a burned house
Four thousand years ago, a dog walked across a freshly shaped block of wet clay in…
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Copper from 435 miles away: how Shang China’s capital built one of East Asia’s earliest supply chains
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Copper from 435 miles away: how Shang China’s capital built one of East Asia’s earliest supply chains
Chemical fingerprints in copper ore suggest Zhengzhou's bronze workshops around 1400 BC relied on mines in…
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Attackers Killed at Least 37 People in Bronze Age Somerset and Likely Ate Some
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Attackers Killed at Least 37 People in Bronze Age Somerset and Likely Ate Some
Oxford-led researchers found that at least 37 people died violently about 4,000 years ago in Somerset,…
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Bronze Age Turkish Site Shows Two Earthquakes, Two Responses: People Rebuilt After the First and Left After the Second
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Bronze Age Turkish Site Shows Two Earthquakes, Two Responses: People Rebuilt After the First and Left After the Second
A new study in Antiquity finds that two third-millennium BC earthquakes struck Panaztepe in western Turkiye.…
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A 3,400-Year-Old Cyprus Jug Held Burned Barley, Figs, Lentils and Flowers That Mourners May Have Left in a Tomb
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A 3,400-Year-Old Cyprus Jug Held Burned Barley, Figs, Lentils and Flowers That Mourners May Have Left in a Tomb
Researchers studying charred plants from four tombs and a well at Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus…
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Two Rare Deer-Antler Axes Turn Up at a Prehistoric Settlement in Southern Sweden
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Two Rare Deer-Antler Axes Turn Up at a Prehistoric Settlement in Southern Sweden
Swedish archaeologists recovered two deer-antler axes from pits near Löddeköpinge in Skåne, tentatively dated to the…
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Mohenjo-daro’s Homes Grew More Equal in Size, and a New Study Links the Trend to Shared City Planning
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Mohenjo-daro’s Homes Grew More Equal in Size, and a New Study Links the Trend to Shared City Planning
A 2026 study of 309 Mohenjo-daro homes finds lower inequality than at several other ancient cities,…
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Bronze Age Man Under a Hearth in Spain May Reflect a Ritual
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Bronze Age Man Under a Hearth in Spain May Reflect a Ritual
A man of about 40 was sealed between two floors at La Almoloya in Spain, his…
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Bronze Age Greece: Young Adults Moved, Not Whole Families
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Bronze Age Greece: Young Adults Moved, Not Whole Families
A strontium isotope study of 199 Bronze Age individuals from Greece finds that 5 to 10…
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Viking Ship Burial in Norway Reveals Bronze Age Grave
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Viking Ship Burial in Norway Reveals Bronze Age Grave
Archaeologists reopened a Viking ship burial in Norway after 124 years and found a Bronze Age…
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Ukraine’s Drained Reservoir May Hide a Lost Bronze Age City
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Ukraine’s Drained Reservoir May Hide a Lost Bronze Age City
A drained Ukrainian reservoir has exposed a Bronze Age settlement, a Golden Horde city, and lost…
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Another Mysterious Bronze Age Tablet Emerges Near Lake Garda
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Another Mysterious Bronze Age Tablet Emerges Near Lake Garda
Archaeologists excavating the prehistoric pile-dwelling site of Lucone di Polpenazze near Lake Garda have uncovered a…
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Bronze Age Greek Elites Wore Rings Forged From Meteorites
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Bronze Age Greek Elites Wore Rings Forged From Meteorites
A five-year chemical analysis of 91 iron objects from Bronze Age Greece found that 13 nickel-rich…
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Whole Spelt and Pottery Emerge From a Sunken Italian Village
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Whole Spelt and Pottery Emerge From a Sunken Italian Village
The 2026 excavation season at the sunken Iron Age village of Gran Carro in Italy's Lake…
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Azerbaijan’s 3,200-Year-Old Ceremonial Kitchen Unearthed
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Azerbaijan’s 3,200-Year-Old Ceremonial Kitchen Unearthed
At Tava Tepe in western Azerbaijan, archaeologists have found that a 3,200-year-old ceremonial kitchen was rebuilt…
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3,000-Year-Old Bronze Hoard Found Sunk in Czech Marsh
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3,000-Year-Old Bronze Hoard Found Sunk in Czech Marsh
A rare Bronze Age hoard found near Kojetín, Czech Republic, may not have been buried for…
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The Ancient City That Grew More Equal the More It Prospered
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The Ancient City That Grew More Equal the More It Prospered
Historians have long assumed that as cities grow, inequality follows. Mohenjo-daro did the opposite. A University…
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A 3,300-Year-Old Iron Dagger From the World Before Iron
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A 3,300-Year-Old Iron Dagger From the World Before Iron
A Hittite iron dagger at Turkey's Amasra Museum is 42.5 centimetres long, single-piece iron, and survives…
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Inverted, Symbolic, and 5,000 Years Old: The Gökhöyük Jar
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Inverted, Symbolic, and 5,000 Years Old: The Gökhöyük Jar
At Gokhoyuk in central Turkey, archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old ceramic jar decorated with a human face,…
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Stonehenge’s Altar Stone: Human Effort, Glacier, or Both?
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Stonehenge’s Altar Stone: Human Effort, Glacier, or Both?
The Altar Stone at Stonehenge came from northeast Scotland, roughly 700 kilometres away. A new study…
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Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound
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Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound
Archaeologists at Turkmen Karahoyuk in central Turkey uncovered a 3,500-year-old Hieroglyphic Luwian seal bearing an official's…
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Was Troy Real? The Archaeology Behind Homer’s Odyssey
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Was Troy Real? The Archaeology Behind Homer’s Odyssey
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just broke box office records. But was the world Homer described actually…
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A Gold Diadem on a Child’s Forehead: Bronze Age Cyprus
Archaeology
A Gold Diadem on a Child’s Forehead: Bronze Age Cyprus
Nine gold diadems from Bronze Age tombs at Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus include one still resting…
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Bronze Age Armenia: The Elite Tomb With a Sacrificed Horse
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Bronze Age Armenia: The Elite Tomb With a Sacrificed Horse
A monumental Late Bronze Age tomb at Shamiram in Armenia has yielded bronze weapons, obsidian arrowheads,…
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How Cyprus Rewrites the History of Pigeon Domestication
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How Cyprus Rewrites the History of Pigeon Domestication
New research in Antiquity reveals that pigeons at Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus were…
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Haughey’s Fort: Bronze Age Ireland’s Proto-Urban Powerhouse
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Haughey’s Fort: Bronze Age Ireland’s Proto-Urban Powerhouse
New research in Antiquity reinterprets Haughey’s Fort, Northern Ireland, as one of Western Europe’s earliest proto-urban…
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How a Royal Name Cracked a 4,000-Year-Old Iranian Script
Archaeology
How a Royal Name Cracked a 4,000-Year-Old Iranian Script
For over a century, Linear Elamite defeated every scholar who attempted to read it. An international…
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Charred Bronze Age Teeth Are Unlocking Age at Death After 3,000 Years
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Charred Bronze Age Teeth Are Unlocking Age at Death After 3,000 Years
A new Scientific Reports study has found that microscopic growth lines in tooth roots can survive…
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Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Was Hauled 700km from Scotland by Neolithic People
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Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Was Hauled 700km from Scotland by Neolithic People
A new study combining mineral grain dating and ice-sheet modeling has confirmed that Stonehenge's six-tonne Altar…
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4,000-Year-Old Child’s Skull in Uzbekistan Reveals Earliest Surgery in Central Asia
Archaeology
4,000-Year-Old Child’s Skull in Uzbekistan Reveals Earliest Surgery in Central Asia
Archaeologists excavating the Bronze Age settlement of Djarkutan in Uzbekistan have uncovered the skull of a…
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Mohenjo-daro Grew More Equal as It Expanded, New Study Finds
Archaeology
Mohenjo-daro Grew More Equal as It Expanded, New Study Finds
A new study from the University of York reveals that Mohenjo-daro, the great Bronze Age city…
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The Wall That Guarded a Memory: A Bronze Age Mystery Unearthed in Bosnia
Archaeology
The Wall That Guarded a Memory: A Bronze Age Mystery Unearthed in Bosnia
Archaeologists in Bosnia uncovered a massive Bronze Age stone wall built not for defense but to…
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Oracle Bones Reveal the Climate Disaster That Destroyed the Shang Dynasty
Archaeology
Oracle Bones Reveal the Climate Disaster That Destroyed the Shang Dynasty
Ancient oracle bones reveal how massive floods and shifting typhoons crushed China's powerful Shang dynasty long…
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Whispers from the Loom: 5,000-Year-Old Fabric Uncovered in Bulgarian Cave
Archaeology
Whispers from the Loom: 5,000-Year-Old Fabric Uncovered in Bulgarian Cave
In a rare discovery, archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old hemp textiles in Bulgaria's Magura Cave, preserved by…
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Digital Map Resurrects Lost Bronze Age World in Ancient Anatolia
Archaeology
Digital Map Resurrects Lost Bronze Age World in Ancient Anatolia
A new open-access digital database maps 483 forgotten Bronze Age settlements in western Anatolia, revealing a…
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