Andrzej Korpikiewicz took a scooter to the outskirts of Warsaw to see the Vistula River on the afternoon of July 1, he told McClatchy News on July 4. While walking along the riverbank, he noticed a ...

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal ...

This form of training is heavily used in modern military training,” said the researchers. The Greek marines successfully completed their 11-hour Late Bronze Age combat simulation.

Tin was the critical mineral of the ancient world. It was essential to alloy with copper to make bronze, which for many centuries was the preferred metal for tools and weapons. Yet sources of tin are ...

The stories of Bronze Age Greece are still with us. Epic poems, many of them attributed to a single playwright — Homer, paint a picture of a world where the divide between gods and men was blurry.

Given that Odysseus was fighting in Bronze Age Greece, he’d have fought in Mycenaean-era armour – a series of hammered bronze bands or plates that protected the torso and shoulders.

So far, around 50 bronze axes, sickles, spears, swords, razors, hammers, tweezers and awls have been found along with some 60 wooden buckets, platters and troughs as well as around 60 well ...

As researchers continue to investigate this shipwreck, perhaps even more revelations about the ancient world will come to light. After reading about the discovery of this Bronze-Age dagger, learn more ...

The Fall of Troy, by Daniel Van Heil, Via the Web Gallery of Art; with Court of the Medinet-Habu Temple, Carl Werner, 1874, via the Wellcome Collection; and a late Bronze Age sword, from Epirus ...

Bronze Age warriors were often buried with their weapons, swords and spears, and boar’s tusk helmets. We found lots of those in tombs because they belonged to people buried there.