The author explores the roles and personalities of Homer’s characters—the Greek beauty Helen, the enslaved girl Briseis, the Trojan royal Hecuba, the witch Circe, Odysseus’ patient wife, Penelope, and ...

Using a supply list from an ancient clay tablet, experts have reconstructed a large Bronze Age ship from 4,000 years ago and sailed it around the Persian Gulf.

Photo of excavated pit at the site Tanum 1835. Credit: Petersson 2009 . One of the most interesting sites is Tanum, an area known for its extensive collection of Bronze Age rock art, depicting images ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that ...

Amid highway construction, archaeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old Late Bronze Age settlement and cremation cemetery, as announced by the Suffolk City Council in the United Kingdom.

This week, hit the high seas aboard a reconstructed Bronze Age ship, meet lions looking for love, uncover a genetic treasure trove in mammoth fur, and more.

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into the era’s namesake gold-colored metal has long puzzled archaeologists. A big part of the answer ...

2,000-year-old statues discovered that archaeologists say could "rewrite history" 01:00 Skeletal remains and skull fragments of two Bronze Age women were found at a construction site in the U.K.

A 60-foot-long reproduction of a Bronze Age boat—of a type that was in use more than 4,000 years ago—has successfully set sail. The replica vessel departed from the coast of Abu Dhabi, the ...

During the Nordic Bronze Age, from around 2000 to 500 BCE, commodities of all kinds flowed in and out of northern Europe through long-distance trade networks that stretched across the continent.

Using a supply list from an ancient clay tablet, experts have reconstructed a large Bronze Age ship from 4,000 years ago and sailed it around the Persian Gulf.

Using a supply list from an ancient clay tablet, experts have reconstructed a large Bronze Age ship from 4,000 years ago and sailed it around the Persian Gulf.