An 'exceptional' 3,000-year-old trove of objects that was found by a metal detectorist in 2020 has been saved for the nation. The Bronze Age Peebles Hoard, which includes a sword and decorated ...

Archaeologists in southern Greece have uncovered the tomb of a wealthy Bronze Age warrior dating back to around 1500 BCE. The tomb includes not only the warrior’s skeleton, but also 1400 artifacts ...

Swords first appeared during the Bronze Age. But scholars aren’t sure whether they were a prestige item — made for show — or designed primarily to kill. Swords developed on human beings over hundreds ...

Previous investigations into the use of Bronze Age weapons either applied experimental techniques, such as recreations of combat, or metalwork wear analysis, in which scientists use microscopes to ...

Hefty Bronze Age swords are an impressive sight, but scholars have long wondered if these swords were primarily ornamental or if they were used regularly in combat. Modern researchers took a closer ...

After decades of debate and assumptions, archaeologists have picked up their Bronze Age swords to find out whether these soft metal weapons could really hack it in combat. For a long time, ...

Archaeologists in Pylos, southwest Greece, have excavated the intact tomb of a wealthy Bronze Age warrior-king buried about 3,500 years ago, in a discovery the team’s co-leader hailed as “one of the ...

The first Neolithic humans reached Crete about 9,000 years before present (YBP) 1,2, coinciding with the development and adoption of the agricultural practices in the Near East and the extensive ...