The author explores the roles and personalities of Homer’s characters—the Greek beauty Helen, the enslaved girl Briseis, the ...

The Nordic Bronze Age, marked by its iconic imagery of ships carved into rocks and metal objects scattered throughout Scandinavia, has always left an unsolved enigma for archaeologists: where were ...

It is the world’s largest reconstruction of a Bronze Age Magan boat ... including how much effort it would have taken to sail such ships across the ocean. Researcher Ayesha Almansoori, one ...

Bronze Age Sardinians were also probably directly ... In the other direction Sardinian and perhaps other ships are now thought to have carried Middle Eastern glass beads, Egyptian faience, Cypriot ...

Tens of thousands of depictions of prehistoric ships have been discovered adorning ... During the Nordic Bronze Age, from around 2000 to 500 BCE, commodities of all kinds flowed in and out of ...

The new Bronze Age wonder was detected last summer at a ... a mast or the square sail typically used by Mediterranean trade ships of the time. “The ship is preserved at such a great depth ...

Sea currents and winds forced trading ships from Britain and other western ports to travel along the southeastern Mediterranean coast, he explains, where Late Bronze Age warfare between Egyptians ...

An ancient Bronze Age settlement was recently uncovered by archaeologists in the United Kingdom while a highway was being built. The Suffolk City Council described the site as a “Late Bronze Age ...

The result is a close study of the epic poems, a meditation on the lives of women then and now, an engaging history of scholarship, and an overview of the archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean and ...

An ancient Bronze Age settlement was recently uncovered by archaeologists in the United Kingdom while a highway was being built. The Suffolk City Council described the site as a "Late Bronze Age ...