Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

A discovery in Spain shows that ancient people in the Iberian Peninsula were making objects out of iron from meteorites. Two unusual pieces found in the Treasure of Villena were made from this ...

Ancient bronze artifacts dedicated to a warrior god have been uncovered in a fortress that dates back to around 2,700 years ago. The bronze items—three shields and a helmet—were found during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While exploring an ancient site in China, a team of archaeologists recently stumbled upon an abundant trove of ancient bronze ...

A shipment declared as “metal decorative articles” turned out to be something else entirely - dozens of ancient weapons, believed to be looted from Iran. US border officials in Philadelphia have now ...

Bronze tools once defined entire civilizations, but their limits became clear once harder metals appeared. In this one-day challenge, a bronze knife is cast, polished, and sharpened to see just how ...

The three Rs—reuse, reduce, recycle—seem to have been a crucial part of the Late Antiquity period sculpture ecosystem. Among the ruins of the city of Metropolis, which is now Izmir, Turkey, ...

A bronze hand from 2,100 years ago has revealed rare evidence of a mysterious ancient language, with researchers determining that the inscription is the oldest and longest example of Vasconic to date.

We can split atoms, map the human genome, and launch cars into space. Still, there are objects built hundreds or even ...

Chemical clues in ancient bones reveal how diet, especially millet consumption, helped define social identity in Bronze Age Poland.