Only 11 ships from the Iron Age had been previously found in the Mediterranean; discovery provides evidence of maritime trade ...

One of the biggest Iron Age hoards ever seen, the Melsonby Hoard, contains chariots, tires, harnesses, many other ancient ...

New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Published recently in ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Irrigation was used to maintain viticulture under changing climatic conditions, suggesting that ancient farmers took full account of the varying requirements of their crops through sophisticated ...