It’s late summer 2,850 years ago. A fire engulfs a stilt village perched above a boggy, slow-moving river that weaves though the wetlands of eastern England. The tightly packed roundhouses, built from ...

A quiet hillside in southern Scotland has yielded one of the most unsettling archaeological discoveries in recent memory, a ...

Bronze Age weapons hoard belonging to the elite, buried over 3,000 years ago in Carnoustie, reveals the lives of warriors before Rome.

Almost 3,000 years ago, on a marshland about three hours north of modern-day London, a small settlement was built. It consisted of a few houses surrounded by a wall with spiky outposts. Despite the ...

The remains of a 3,000-year-old village were recently discovered in a clay quarry called Must Farm in eastern England. The wooden houses were destroyed by fire, and the charred timbers gradually sank ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

A new exhibition at the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery in the U.K. is offering a rare glimpse into the everyday lives of residents of a Bronze Age settlement. Must Farm is a recently discovered ...

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