The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

The residents of a newly revealed Bronze Age farm were "very sophisticated" and not "living in squalor", an archaeologist ...

A bomb with a force powerful enough to instantly destroy much of a nine-story building shattered a quiet Oklahoma City ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though ...

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 ...

AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social organisation, settlement character and economy. Settlements became walled, megalithic funerary ...

Image of the research excavation (2022 campaign) at Cerro de la Cabeza.Image of the research excavation (2022 campaign) at Cerro de la Cabeza. Credit: German Archaeological Institute of Madrid The ...

Oh, I'm never going to get this.' Here I am."King was the first to step on her bronze star after it was uncovered several blocks east of where her longtime friend Elton John's is located." ...

Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of unusual discoveries suggest. Excavations at a roughly 4,000-year-old settlement near ...

In ancient Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age, as the name of the period suggests, bronze tools were the main tools used, and copper, the material used in making them, was an important commodity.

Today, this Bronze Age clay tablet is the oldest customer complaint we know of – and it's a doozy. Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written ...