Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...

Sheep helped spread an early form of the plague, suggests new research. The bacterium that causes bubonic plague has been ...

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known ...

Science Archaeology Cheers to Bronze Age humans for delicious Italian wine Grape cultivation in Italy goes back to roughly 1400 BCE. Laura Baisas Apr 23, 2025 2:00 PM EDT ...

A hoard of metal fragments found on farmland was the Bronze Age equivalent of a modern-day recycling bin, an expert said. The stash of copper-alloy debris, dating back more than 2,000 years, was ...

Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey. Researchers have deciphered parts of ...