A major study shows how people in Bronze Age Europe adapted to change through shifting ancestry, burial rites and daily life practices.

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 ...

A stone being used in the foundation of an old barn in the Czech Republic turned out to be a Bronze Age spearhead mold.

Because cremation dominates the Urnfield period, the Late Bronze Age has long been a “blind spot” for biomolecular research. The new study published in Nature tackled that gap by focusing on ...

Researchers used satellite images to help expose a societal landscape in Bronze Age Central Europe. The archaeological team discovered over 100 sites in a complex network, highlighting the largest ...

Chemical clues in ancient bones reveal how diet, especially millet consumption, helped define social identity in Bronze Age Poland.

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

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.

Insights into the lives of people in the Late Bronze Age: Interdisciplinary analyses (DNA, isotopes) shed light on the ...

At the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Rhodes became one of the most fiercely contested islands in history. This episode traces its rise from Bronze Age settlement and Greek power to ...