For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The ...

Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

Metal detecting with unearthed uk, A bronze age secret that was hiding in plain sight! In this film we go back 3,000 years to ...

Remains of an extinct breed of Bronze Age cattle have been discovered by archaeologists in a cave in the Yorkshire Dales.

During the Bronze Age in Greece, mythological gods existed. It is believed these were the basis for the ancient Greek gods ...

The well-preserved bronze artifact, estimated to be nearly 3,000 years old, was found just 8 inches deep in the forest floor, officials said. See it.

Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy's shining walls, ...

Laboratory tests conducted during University of Haifa study reveal that the bronze was produced on-site by alloying copper ...

It's likely the Bronze Age Britons used a variety of ways to mummify the dead, including temporarily placing them in bogs, smoking them over a fire or removing their organs after death, he said.