The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Step back in time to 3300 BCE and explore the Bronze Age, a period marked by the rise of early civilizations in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Learn about the cultures, innovations, and advancements in ...

AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social organisation, settlement character and economy. Settlements became walled, megalithic funerary ...

Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of unusual discoveries suggest. Excavations at a roughly 4,000-year-old settlement near ...

3,000 years earlier than the Viking Era, Bronze Age Scandinavians crossed open seas using paddle-powered boats. Credit: Public Domain A new study suggests that Bronze Age Scandinavians crossed open ...

Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written language are stocktakes and ledgers recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper ...

Archaeologists excavating a field in the municipality of Kutenholz in the Stade District, in Lower Saxony, Germany, have discovered two well-preserved Bronze Age daggers which are believed to date ...

"Cyprus kept its old Bronze Age system [of writing] for well over a thousand years ... which may have influenced Mesopotamian cuneiform. The proto-Sinaitic script was widely thought to be the oldest ...

According to Newsweek, experts believe that the ancient city was about 10 times larger than Jericho, and because of this is being described as the “Early Bronze Age New York.” En Esur shows remarkable ...