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

A discovery in Spain shows that ancient people in the Iberian Peninsula were making objects out of iron from meteorites. Two unusual pieces found in the Treasure of Villena were made from this ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

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Bronze tools once defined entire civilizations, but their limits became clear once harder metals appeared. In this one-day challenge, a bronze knife is cast, polished, and sharpened to see just how ...

A Roman bust of a mythical maenad reveals Indian garnet eyes, offering new evidence of Indo-Roman trade networks and gemstone exchange.

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Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. It is just 63 millimeters long ...

Ancient Greek geographer Pausanias wrote that Lycosura in Arcadia is the oldest city in the world and "the first that the sun beheld." ...

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