The remains of a Late Bronze Age settlement "of considerable significance" were uncovered during the development of a new ...

The remains of a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement have been discovered during the construction of a new road in Ipswich.

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

Valuable objects placed in graves are often one of the clues archaeologists use to work out who had higher status in the past, and when we start to see outrageous differences in the value of the goods ...

Dumitrache is no stranger to ancient discovery. In 2024, the shepherd was at the base of Merez Hill in the town of Șoimești, about an 8-mile drive to the northeast, when he spotted bones for the first ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different theory, which challenges existing ideas about early class structures ...

Quite a few stones that look like penises, so-called phallic stones, have been found. Now archaeologists believe they have ...

Around 4,000 years ago, women in Nubia were using tumplines, a form of head strap, to carry around goods and young children.

Created by digital artist Juanjo Ortega G., the digital reconstruction depicts a woman who died in her mid-30s during the ...

Valuable objects placed in graves are often one of the clues archaeologists use to work out who had higher status in the past, and when we start to see outrageous differences in the value of the goods ...

and they appeared to be buried in the customary way of someone from the early Bronze Age, archaeologists said. They dated the age of the grave to about 5,000 years old, the museum said.