A bronze tripod cauldron, or ding, of the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century-11th century BC) unearthed from the Panlongcheng site. [Photo provided to China Daily] Archaeologists working at uncovered ruins ...

Zooarchaeologist Stella Nikolova examined dog remains from across Bulgaria’s Iron Age (roughly 5th–1st centuries BC). At Pistiros, she reported that nearly 20% of the examined dog bones had cut marks ...

This selective memory is not unique to Troy. Across history, spectacular collapses dominate how we imagine the past: Rome ...

In Iran, protesters are shot. In the United States, we like to say protest is a protected constitutional right. Oops — ...

Minoan Genii are mythological creatures influenced by Egyptian deities, showing how Bronze Age Mediterranean civilizations ...

It is the most important archaeological discovery of the last decade in Mexico due to its level of preservation and the ...

A flash flood in southeastern Iran exposed evidence of a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization. This episode traces how looted artifacts led archaeologists to the Halil River valley, revealing ...

Long before classical Greece, the Cycladic islands formed one of the earliest and most influential maritime cultures in the Mediterranean. This chapter traces their rise from Neolithic seafarers to ...

Two tombs and evidence of human activity dating back to the late bronze age, 1400 BC, were discovered during excavations ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

For more than a century, the Phaistos Disc has been one of the greatest enigmas in archaeology. Discovered in 1908 in the Minoan palace of Phaistos, on Crete, its surface covered with spiral-stamped ...