DNA analysis shows strong ties to Early Bronze Age Sicily, with little influence from the eastern Mediterranean. There’s also ...

Remains discovered by a farmer in a long-forgotten burial chamber on the Isle of Bute have now been identified as two people from the Bronze Age. The chamber - or cist - was first discovered before ...

The DNA uncovered a complex ancient community with a startling family secret. In a mountain cave in southern Italy, Bronze ...

Asia, Africa and Europe. We will meet the peoples who lived in these lands, including some of the very earliest major ...

A stunning Bronze Age gold ring and a hoard of 21 Roman coins dating back to the reigns of several emperors are among the ...

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

When metal detectorist Mariusz Stępień’s detector pinged in the Scottish Borders in 2020, he could never have guessed he was about to uncover one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds in ...

A weapon as legendary as the dagger of King Tutankhamun needs an epic backstory, and last year X-ray analysis showed that the iron in the ancient blade had come from meteorites. Now, a French study ...

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

A village museum has expressed its delight at acquiring a hoard of Bronze Age items that have been declared treasure. The ...

In a recent study published in Antiquity, Dr. Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues identified more than 600 suspected house ...