On a windswept promontory in Kazakhstan, archaeologists have uncovered a Bronze Age settlement that functioned less like a village and more like a factory town, with furnaces, slag and casting debris ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the largest known monument from the Hittite civilization—an empire that once ruled ...

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A new study asserts that the Bronze Age goblet may be one of the earliest known depictions of cosmology, featuring gods ...

Found in 1970 in the West Bank and on display at the Israel Museum, the Ain Samiya silver goblet shows before-and-after scene ...

Archaeologists involved in documenting the site described the volcanic rock surfaces as "among the earliest canvases of the human imagination," noting that every carved line—whether depicting animals, ...

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Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered the remains of at least seven infants near a mysterious circular structure at the Uşaklı Höyük site. This 2025 discovery, linked to the ancient Hittite ...

The remains of at least seven infant children were discovered during the latest archaeological campaign at Uşaklı Höyük in Turkey. The infant remains, found near a mysterious Hittite structure, were ...