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 ...

Around 1200 B.C.E., the ancient world experienced one of its most dramatic and puzzling upheavals, the Bronze Age Collapse. This widespread event saw the sudden decline and fall of several advanced ...

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.

By Michael Casey May 21, 2015 / 1:59 PM EDT / CBS News One of the most significant finds of the Bronze Age, the remains of a teenage girl discovered in Denmark, is starting to give up her secrets.

The Bronze Age, about 3,000 to 5,000 years ago, was a time of big cultural changes, says study coauthor Morten Allentoft, a geneticist at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum ...

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

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

The Bronze Age of comic books marked a significant shift from the “flash and pop” of the Silver Age, moving towards more mature, character-driven stories. These narratives were often serious ...