Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .

An ancient poem written in the dying days of Mesopotamia has been rediscovered after more than 2,000 years. Researchers at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Baghdad have ...

Is the legend of Atlantis a distorted memory of the historical wars between the Egyptians and the Sea Peoples in the Bronze Age?

Between c. 1400 and 1200 BC, impressive palaces were the focal points of power for the Mycenaeans in Bronze Age Greece.

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society that could upend the accepted narrative of where writing and urban life began.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF APRIL 20, 2025 18:20 Rare Bronze Age cymbals discovered in Oman. (photo credit: H. David-Cuny, Antiquity) ...

Around 1750 BC during the Bronze Age, a man named Nanni, who lived in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur , sent a clay tablet containing a complaint to a copper merchant named Eanasir.

This theory was based on the idea that by the early Bronze Age, Mesopotamian societies were ruled by kings and organized into social hierarchies. But the new study complicates that idea.

The recent discoveries were made at Başur Höyük, a Bronze Age settlement dating back to around 3300 BCE and located in present-day Turkey’s eastern province of Siirt.

The Royal Cemetery of Ur was discovered in 1922 by renowned archaeologists Sir Leonard Woolley and his wife Katharine. Tomb after tomb of lavishly appointed burials containing prestige objects were ...