A new study of human remains dredged from the Thames River reveals that people frequently deposited corpses there in the ...

Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes ...

Countless human bones have been found at the bottom of the River Thames in England, and some of them have been dated back to ...

Imagine an entire era of thriving civilizations, trade, and culture - wiped out in just 50 years. The Bronze Age Collapse ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

"Violence is a particularly common theme for later prehistoric human remains from watery places," said the head researcher.

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

Photos show newly-uncovered footprints, formed as Bronze Age people trampled a freshly-ejected layer of volcanic material when they ran away. Known as the Avellino eruption, the 1995 BC event ...