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May 5, 2021 —The first civilisations to build monumental palaces and urban centres in Europe are more genetically homogenous than expected, according to genomes gathered from archaeological sites around the ...
Aug. 23, 2022 —A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where the first European state flourished during the ...
Sep. 8, 2020 —A recent study has shed new light on the Minoan system of fractions, one of the outstanding enigmas tied to the ancient writing of ...
Sep. 3, 2020 —A researcher developed a mathematical method that shows climate change likely caused the rise and fall of an ancient civilization. A new article outlines the technique he developed and shows how ...
Jan. 16, 2023 —An international team of researchers achieves completely new insights into Bronze Age marriage rules and family structures in Greece. Analyses of ancient genomes show that the choice of marriage ...
July 29, 2021 —Ancient urn graves contain a wealth of information about a high-ranking woman and her Bronze Age Vatya community, according to a new ...
Apr. 11, 2023 —Material left on the seafloor by bronze-age underwater volcanic eruptions is helping researchers better understand the size, hazards and climate impact of their parent eruptions, according to new ...
Jan. 20, 2021 —In the Early Bronze Age of Europe, ancient people used bronze objects as an early form of money, even going so far as to standardize the shape and weight of their currency, according to a new ...
June 29, 2021 —Knowing the weight of a commodity provides a way to value goods in the marketplace. But did a self-regulating market even exist in the Bronze Age? And what can weight systems tell us? Researchers ...
Sep. 21, 2022 —Archaeologists hope to settle one of modern archaeology's longstanding disputes: the date of a volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini, traditionally known as ...
