The Sea Peoples are often cited as one of the key factors behind the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations. Discover who they were, where they came from, and how they reshaped ancient history.

Mysterious engravings on an ancient stone slab, long relegated to the storage area of an ancient castle, might reveal the locations of long-lost Bronze Age treasure.

Navigating our reliance on maps 04:55. A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a "treasure map" for archaeologists, who are using ...

A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a "treasure map" for archaeologists, who are using it to hunt for ancient sites around ...

A photo shows the Bronze Age map that may lead archeologists to previously undiscovered finds from 4,000 years ago. INRAP. Then in 2014, Yvan Pailler, a professor at the University of Western ...

Eventually, the invaders – known today as the Sea Peoples – attacked Egypt. But Ramesses III succeeded where others had failed and crushed them. In the 200 years since hieroglyphics were first ...

We have no written evidence about how people lived in Europe during the Bronze Age (2300–800 BCE), so archaeologists piece together their world from the artifacts and materials they left behind.

The love of treasure maps spans through time—all the way back to the Bronze Age, it appears.. The Saint-Belec slab—a 4,000-year-old, 5-foot by 6.5-foot carved piece of stone—was found to be ...

The Bronze Age in the Near East and Aegean region began around 3000 B.C. It peaked in the 1500s B.C. and ended gradually, then suddenly, in the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 1200s and early ...

Did Bronze Age Europe have a market economy? New research suggests “hoard piles” could be linked to the exchange of small pieces of metal – much like money changes hands today.