Scientists have unraveled how an early form of Bronze Age plague that differed from the Black Death spread across Europe.

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

Learn more about the people who once used Grotta della Monaca as a sacred burial site.

Archaeologists have uncovered the secrets of a “vast” 3,500-year-old settlement in Kazakhstan thought to have been an early form of a city. Described as “one of the most remarkable discoveries” in the ...

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into the era’s namesake gold-colored metal has long puzzled archaeologists. A big part of the answer lies in ...

A survey of archaeological sites in western Turkey has identified hundreds of large towns that thrived there during the Bronze Age – potentially supporting the controversial idea that the area was ...

This unprecedented find—featuring eight individuals buried in haste—is challenging existing theories about prehistoric life.

A 3,000-year-old treasure hoard containing 310 objects from the Late Bronze Age has been discovered, the largest local find ...

A new, freely accessible dataset published in Nature Scientific Data documents 483 substantial settlements from the Middle ...