Around 1200 BCE, several advanced Bronze Age societies across the eastern Mediterranean suddenly collapsed. Egyptian records describe invasions by a confederation known as the Sea Peoples ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A new analysis of a 4,000-year-old stone slab, consigned to the storage area of an ancient castle in France, suggests that it may be engraved with directions to long-lost Bronze Age treasure ...