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

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

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

Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy's shining walls, ...

Excavations of burial sites have uncovered battle-scarred female archers, leading some archaeologists to posit that Amazons ...

A new study reveals that a song from Ugarit shares rhythmic patterns with Rig Veda, proving a song connects Bronze Age civilizations.

Around 1200 B.C.E., the ancient world experienced one of its most dramatic and puzzling upheavals, the Bronze Age Collapse. This widespread event saw the sudden decline and fall of several advanced ...

Metal detecting with unearthed uk, A bronze age secret that was hiding in plain sight! In this film we go back 3,000 years to ...

Bronze Age man farmed the land, managed the woodland. The archaeologists believe the ash palisade – the protective fence encircling the settlement – was harvested from a coppice planted some ...

By Michael Casey May 21, 2015 / 1:59 PM EDT / CBS News One of the most significant finds of the Bronze Age, the remains of a teenage girl discovered in Denmark, is starting to give up her secrets.