Did the mysterious Sea Peoples cause the Bronze Age Collapse, or were they merely a symptom of this catastrophic event?

It's been described as one of the great apocalyptic events of the ancient world. In 1200 BCE, the Bronze Age collapsed. And it did so rapidly and with disastrous consequences. But how did an epoch ...

The Bronze Age and its collapse The Bronze Age […] Black-flagged ships sailed up the Nile, bringing mysterious seafarers who wrought havoc wherever they went.

What has archaeological revealed about the real history of Troy, and how does this tie into the legends from Greek mythology?

3,200 years ago, Bronze Age civilization in the Mediterranean suddenly collapsed. This so-called "Late Bronze Age Collapse" was seemingly caused by the sudden appearance mysterious invaders called ...

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Did Bronze Age Europe have a market economy? New research suggests “hoard piles” could be linked to the exchange of small pieces of metal – much like money changes hands today.

Using a supply list from an ancient clay tablet, experts have reconstructed a large Bronze Age ship from 4,000 years ago and sailed it around the Persian Gulf.

Originally discovered in May, the burial chamber began eroding out of the peat at Dartmoor National Park and was excavated in August, according to a statement from the park. The tomb, which ...

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 ...