In the late 12th century BC, the great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed so completely that writing vanished from Greece for centuries, and a new dark age began. This chapter explores how oral ...

A new ancient-DNA study suggests the Bronze Age people who transformed Britain around 2400 BC didn’t arrive from Iberia, as older narratives of the “Bell Beaker” story sometimes implied. Instead, ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Ilia Malinin's coronation as an Olympic champion will have to wait. The 21-year-old U.S. figure skater stumbled twice during an uncharacteristically sloppy performance ...

MILAN — Laurent Dubreuil sat cross-legged inside the oval at Milano Speed Skating Stadium, arms raised in the air, after what he called the “most stressful minutes” of his life.

Ilia Malinin's coronation as an Olympic champion will have to wait. The 21-year-old U.S. figure skater stumbled twice during an uncharacteristically sloppy performance in ...

Around 3300 BC, humans entered a new era that would change history forever. Bronze replaced stone, writing emerged, trade networks spread across continents, and the first true empires began to rise.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Nobody could blame the doctors for telling 13-year-old Jake Canter he should never step on a snowboard ...

The sword was discovered during archaeological excavations in Nördlingen, a town in the Donau-Ries district of Swabia, Bavaria. The weapon, which dates to the middle Bronze Age, is so remarkably ...

Dr. Marta Chmiel-Chrzanowska and her colleagues conducted a multidisciplinary analysis of the only known preserved wooden coffin from the Roman Iron Age, the Princess of Bagicz. The study, published ...