A 3,000-Year-Old Mace Head in Poland: Experts Are Trying to Trace Its Origins
A small metal object found near Dukla in southeastern Poland has raised a question far larger than its size: how did a possible 3,000-year-old mace…
Bronze age
Rare 2,500-Year-Old Bronze Neck Rings Found Inside a Swedish Grave Monument
Archaeologists excavating at Marby, east of Norrköping in Sweden, have uncovered two rare bronze neck rings inside a Late Bronze Age grave monument. The ornaments,…
A 3,700-Year-Old Smile from Ancient Carchemish Is Going on Display in Türkiye
Long before digital emojis, someone in Bronze Age Carchemish painted a simple smiling face on a clay flask. Nearly 3,700 years later, that small object…
Prehistoric Fires in a Pyrenees Cave May Reveal One of Europe’s Earliest High-Altitude Copper Mining Sites
Cave 338 sits more than 2,200 meters above sea level in the eastern Pyrenees, where prehistoric visitors left behind fires, bones, ornaments and nearly 200…
Dog Walker Spots Green Glint in Forest Roots, Finds 3,400-Year-Old Bronze Age Axe Head
A Bronze Age axe head hidden for more than three millennia has been discovered in England’s Forest of Dean after a dog walker noticed an…
A 3,500-Year-Old Gold Jewelry Set Found on Aegina May Help Unlock a Bronze Age Mystery
That is the case at Kolona on the Greek island of Aegina, where archaeologists have uncovered an exceptional set of Middle Bronze Age gold ornaments…
Bronze Age Ceremonial Site Discovered in Bosnia
A quiet hill above the Lašva River in Bosnia and Herzegovina has produced one of the most puzzling discoveries in recent Balkan archaeology. What looked…
3,500-Year-Old Hittite Storm God Figurine Found by Chance Goes on Display for the First Time
A chance discovery in central Turkey has brought an extraordinary piece of Bronze Age craftsmanship into public view. A 3,500-year-old Hittite storm god figurine, measuring…
A 3,000-Year-Old Mystery: Sanxingdui Artifact May Be Forged from Meteorite Iron
A dark, corroded meteorite iron object lay buried for thousands of years inside a ritual pit in southwestern China. At first, it looked unremarkable. Then…