Swords first appeared during the Bronze Age. But scholars aren't sure whether they were a prestige item — made for show — or designed primarily to kill. Swords developed on human beings over ...

A detailed laser-scan survey of the entire monument has discovered 72 previously unknown Early Bronze Age carvings chipped into five of the giant stones.

Archaeologists have discovered a vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds, thought to be up to 4,400 years old, ahead of a building development less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Stonehenge ...

While preparing land for a new housing development, archaeologists outside of Salisbury, England, uncovered a large Bronze Age cemetery. The site is roughly ten miles from Stonehenge. But despite ...

Microwear traces on a Bronze Age tool used for smoothing or polishing Courtesy of Wiltshire Museum In 1801, archaeologists discovered an earthen mound near Stonehenge that contained the remains of ...

Archaeologists have discovered a Stonehenge-esque circle of timber posts in Denmark, thought to be from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The site was likely used as a ritual ground and ...

Bronze Age Britain In modern-day Britain, ... So we're talking about 850 B.C. So this is a period after the kind of the Neolithic - so people might be familiar with Stonehenge.

Stonehenge's altar stone was quarried over 4,600 years ago, ... The Winterbourne Stoke Burrows is a cluster of ancient Stone or Bronze Age burials close to Stonehenge that everyone should explore.

The site is less than 10 miles south of Stonehenge, the iconic prehistoric monument. The cemetery dates to the Bronze Age, a period from 2400 B.C. to 1500 B.C., the release said.

An ancient goldworking tool kit has been identified by archaeologists among the grave goods previously unearthed from a Bronze Age barrow located some 11 miles west of Stonehenge.The 4,000-year ...

The site is less than 10 miles south of Stonehenge, the iconic prehistoric monument. The cemetery dates to the Bronze Age, a period from 2400 B.C. to 1500 B.C., the release said.