History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major cities were destroyed, whole civilizations fell, diplomatic and trade ...

Skeleton of one of the two individuals who lived in the middle of the Bronze Age and whose complete genome was reconstructed and sequenced by the Lausanne team. It comes from the archaeological site ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

The study “radically transforms our understanding of social and economic relationships” in ancient civilizations. A new study has revealed the surprising role British innovation played in spurring ...

High on a bluff above the Irtysh River in northeastern Kazakhstan, a ghost city lies just beneath the grass. From the surface ...

The only known figurines of Bronze Age charioteers from Europe are two small clay statuettes found by a Serbian farmer in the early twentieth century. The farmer likely came upon them while digging in ...

For thousands of years, one color rose above all others — and was worth more than its weight in gold, according to a fourth-century imperial edict. Tyrian purple was a highly prized pigment developed ...

New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an extraordinary Mediterranean-based trading network.