The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil ...
The Bronze Age wasn’t just about better tools—it was about control. Metal changed warfare, labor, trade, and hierarchy forever. This video explores how a technological leap reshaped human behavior and ...
A loyal companion to its rider, a chariot as the embodiment of victory in the Patriotic War of 1812, a quadriga symbolizing power. The image of the horse in architecture and art has been changing over ...
The Lchashen wagon features a complex mortise-and-tenon construction with bronze fittings that join at least 70 components, while its canopy frame alone required hundreds of precisely mortised holes.
An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (Leipzig, Germany) and the University of Bologna (Italy) has ...
A survey of archaeological sites in western Turkey has identified hundreds of large towns that thrived there during the Bronze Age – potentially supporting the controversial idea that the area was ...
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In the Bronze Age, the so-called Nuraghe culture flourished in Sardinia. A culture that is known for tower-like stone constructions, nuraghers, and for the small bronze figures, bronzetti, which often ...
Middens, massive prehistoric rubbish heaps which became part of the British landscape, are revealing the distances people travelled to feast together at the end of the Bronze Age. In the largest study ...
From the rise of cities to the birth of empires, the Bronze Age reshaped human history. Join us as we explore the cultures, innovations, and people who defined this era The Lisa Cook Case Could Be the ...
The man, who died roughly 3,800 years ago, may have been a prominent military leader and was buried in an elaborate fashion. Reading time 2 minutes In a massive burial mound in the plains of western ...
Novels that explore Greek mythology from the point of view of “silenced” women now constitute their own popular genre: Madeline Miller’s “Circe” (2018), Natalie Haynes’s “A Thousand Ships” (2019) and ...