Beginning in about 1700 B.C., a new material became available in northern Europe that would change the way entire classes of objects were made and how wealth and status were expressed. In Denmark, ...

The Bronze Age Boat Discoveries exhibition at Must Farm includes not only the three preserved vessels but also replica tools, interactive displays, and demonstrations of ancient craft techniques.

The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil ...

Plague is forever linked to the Black Death, a pestilence that wiped out a significant portion of humanity in Europe in the Middle Ages. It likely originated in the plains of Central Asia. But plague ...

In a study by Dr. Yinzhi Cui and his colleagues published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, the contents of 42 pottery vessels from the Bronze Age site of Mogou were analyzed. The ...

The log boats are internationally significant, according to Historic England which helped fund their preservation Rare Bronze and Iron Age log boats unearthed upstream from a settlement dubbed ...

Three Bronze Age log boats, preserved on a silted-up riverbed for over 3,000 years, are set to go on public display following a meticulous 13-year conservation project. These simple vessels, known as ...

Rare Bronze and Iron Age log boats unearthed upstream from a settlement dubbed "Britain's Pompeii" have gone on display for the first time. The vessels have been painstakingly conserved since their ...

On a windswept stretch of Poland’s Baltic coast, a pair of hobby metal detectorists have stumbled onto a weapon that last saw ...

A city's museum has received £250,000 of National Lottery funding to celebrate Bronze Age archaeology uncovered 10 years ago. A settlement at Must Farm quarry in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, was ...

A coracle has been made based on archaeological evidence gathered at a Bronze Age cemetery in Fife A reconstruction of a Bronze Age coracle has been completed 50 years after the prehistoric boat was ...