This armor wasn't just for show. It could have seen deadly combat during the epic Trojan War.

A new study has revealed that 3,300 years ago, tin mined in south-west Britain was a key resource for major Bronze Age civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean thousands of kilometers away.

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 ...

Archaeologists excavating a field in the municipality of Kutenholz in the Stade District, in Lower Saxony, Germany, have discovered two well-preserved Bronze Age daggers which are believed to date ...

But it wasn’t until 2024 that archaeologists took a closer look at the area, which led to the discovery of Bronze Age weapons: two daggers made of—you guessed it—bronze (which is a mix of ...

On a return trip he helped researchers uncover the artifacts the fragments belonged to — two Bronze Age daggers estimated to be over 3,000 years old, according to a March 26 news release from ...

The half-buried Bronze Age ruins of Dmanisis Gora perch on a windswept promontory a few kilometers away from a cave where Homo erectus (or a close relative) lived 1.8 million years ago.

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