Bronze Age arrowheads have helped cast new light on an early large-scale battle over 3,000 years ago. Previous investigations in the Tollense Valley in northeastern Germany have uncovered evidence of ...

A new analysis of dozens of arrowheads is helping researchers piece together a clearer portrait of the warriors who clashed on Europe’s oldest known battlefield 3,250 years ago. The bronze and flint ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. A series of ongoing site excavations since 2008 has shown ...

In a recent study, Dr. Linda Boutoille uncovered the first evidence of lost-wax casting of silver objects in Bronze Age Iberia and, to date, Western Europe. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

Some human bones, including this skull, found at the Tollense Valley battlefield were pierced with arrowheads. Volker Minkus Around 1250 B.C.E., two ancient armies fought with clubs, swords and arrows ...

The find recontextualizes what we opreviously knew about the ancient civilization. A “treasure trove” of priceless Bronze and Iron Age artifacts have been unearthed by archaeologists in Hungary, ...

Metal arrowheads found in Germany’s Tollense Valley shed light on who may have fought in the ancient conflict around 1250 B.C. This skull segment contains an embedded arrowhead from the oldest battle ...

When metal detectorist Mariusz Stępień’s detector pinged in the Scottish Borders in 2020, he could never have guessed he was about to uncover one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds in ...

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