by the aerial data. Preliminary results confirm that the newly exposed monument belongs to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. The work is being carried out under the Community Archaeology Programme Northern Ireland (CAPNI) and is financed by the...

long before such a timeframe, the survival of these curds offers an unprecedented window into the dietary habits of Bronze Age civilizations. The chunks of cheese were found alongside ancient mummies in China in 2003. Credit: Yimin Yang To identify the...

Rare iron artifacts discovered at an ancient French site spark fresh questions about the culture and technology of its early inhabitants. Archaeologists have identified five iron shackles among the artefacts recovered from a 2,300‑year‑old Celtic...

3,000 and 5,000 years ago were recovered from the archaeological Stora Förvar cave, a site linked to Neolithic and Bronze Age seal hunters and fishers. Because the island has never been connected to the mainland, researchers argue that natural...

A teen’s hike leads to a rare, well‑preserved ancient ring, proving some relics evade traditional digs. While scouring the slopes of Mount Carmel for fossils, 13‑year‑old Yair Whiteson uncovered a bronze ring that dates back roughly 1,800 years,...

fecal samples from the Hallstatt salt mines in Austria. These findings suggest that high‑fiber, whole‑grain diets of the Bronze Age supported microbial assemblages that have largely vanished from contemporary human guts. According to the authors, the...

Nazi archaeologists distorted Bronze Age rock carvings, falsely claiming these ancient artworks were encoded messages from a mythical master race. During the 1930s, the Nazi organization known as the Ahnenerbe launched an ambitious but scientifically...

A routine highway survey in the Czech Republic has uncovered a massive cache of ancient gold, revealing hidden treasures untouched for over 2,000 years. Archaeologists surveying a site for the planned D35 motorway in the Czech Republic have uncovered...

A routine highway survey in the Czech Republic has uncovered a stunning collection of ancient gold artifacts hidden for over 2,000 years. A routine archaeological survey ahead of highway construction in the Czech Republic has evolved into a historic...

in the region approximately 7,300 years ago, initiating salt extraction almost immediately upon arrival. By the late Bronze Age, around 1200 B.C.E., the facility had evolved into a high-output operation capable of producing 1.5 tons of salt per day. The...

but in many ways, it is a perfect location: this headland has been an observation post for thousands of years, from a Bronze Age settlement to a Roman signal station, medieval castle, World War I gun battery and, here, a 1960s concrete bunker watching...

New 8,000‑year‑old settlement reshapes Indus Valley history, revealing a startling cause for the collapse of its great cities. Excavations in a trench at Bhirrana, Haryana, have yielded animal bones and teeth that record five millennia of climate...

debate, experts believe the alignment dates back to the transition between the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. Geochemical Fingerprinting Unmasks Ancient Transit For generations, the provenance of the Devil’s Arrows prompted intense academic...

production of manuscripts. A Millennia-Old Biological Record The investigation traced the virus’s timeline back to the Bronze Age, identifying its presence in sheep teeth recovered from pastoralist settlements in the Eurasian steppe. Samples from sites...

returned must remain unharmed, signaling a sophisticated, albeit stern, approach to international law during the Late Bronze Age. A Document of Enduring Significance The history of the Treaty of Kadesh is told through two primary mediums. Early...

connection to the historic 13th-century BCE pact between the Hittite Empire and Egypt. A Diplomatic Relic from the Bronze Age Following a year of meticulous analysis, experts from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism confirmed the artifact is a...

West Bohemia Tracing the Legacy of the Únětice Culture The monument is associated with the Únětice culture, a prominent Bronze Age society that facilitated expansive trade networks. Known for moving commodities like copper, tin, and Baltic amber across...

sites, and betel quid components ©Science Advances Previously, the earliest documented evidence of betel use was dated to Bronze Age Thailand, roughly 3,000 to 3,500 years ago. By shifting this window back to the Late Pleistocene, the Sulawesi findings...

A remarkable discovery in Trøndelag, Norway, reveals a Viking-age woman buried with scallop shells, an unexpected detail that challenges what historians thought they knew about pre-Christian Scandinavian burial rituals. Viking-age burials often bring...

identity across numerous sites and over millennia. Old cave paintings dating from late Neolithic, neolithic and early Bronze age. The Magura cave in Bulgar – © Shutterstock During a TED Talk in 2015, von Petzinger remarked, “If these were random doodles...