His 2024 book, “Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra,” is a final report of the years of excavations at Umm el-Marra.

This recently mapped Bronze Age fortress is just one among hundreds. ... Archaeologists recently used a drone to map a sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Georgia.

Baby rattle fragments. HAMA, SYRIA—Bronze Age potters working in the city of Hama in current-day Syria appear to have sold more than just cups, bowels, and dishes 4,500 years ago—they ...

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These 4,500-year-old rattles may be among the world’s oldest toys. A new study argues that ancient rattles unearthed in Syria aren’t musical instruments, but toys used to entertain infants.

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that ...

Schwartz said the age of the site and clay pieces was confirmed with carbon-14 dating techniques, a process that measures the breakdown of carbon over time. Tell Umm-el Marra is in western Syria ...

The bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom has shed new light on an important period in Central European history.

His 2024 book, “Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra,” is a final report of the years of excavations at Umm el-Marra.