Archaeologists uncover Bronze Age Chinese secret to brewing red rice wine - Rice wine was consumed ceremonially by Mogou ...

A single 4,000-year-old sheep bone, pulled from a windswept burial mound in Central Asia, is forcing scientists to rethink ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

This unprecedented find—featuring eight individuals buried in haste—is challenging existing theories about prehistoric life.

Learn more about the people who once used Grotta della Monaca as a sacred burial site.

A 3,000-year-old treasure hoard containing 310 objects from the Late Bronze Age has been discovered, the largest local find ...

Bronze Age arrowheads have helped cast new light on an early large-scale battle over 3,000 years ago. Previous investigations in the Tollense Valley in northeastern Germany have uncovered evidence of ...

We have no written evidence about how people lived in Europe during the Bronze Age (2300–800 BCE), so archaeologists piece together their world from the artefacts and materials they left behind.

An ancient board game known as Hounds and Jackals has long been believed to have originated in Egypt. However, according to a paper published in the European Journal of Archaeology, a version of the ...

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before Greek settlement.

The pair are being cared for at Scotland’s world-class store for human remains, around 4,000 years after they died.