A 2,700-year-old bronze sword was discovered standing upright in a northern Polish forest, an unusual position suggesting deliberate placement, possibly as a ritual offering. The well-preserved weapon offers insights into Bronze Age craftsmanship, wealth, and belief systems, adding to the region's archaeological history.
Archaeologists using geophysical scanning equipment have found a potential 5,000-year-old ritual circle beneath peat on Scotland's Isle of Arran. The ring of 12 buried pits, detected without digging, may date to the Neolithic or Bronze Age and could have originally held timber posts or standing stones.
New archaeological research suggests Haughey's Fort in County Armagh was part of a large, organized Bronze Age center around 1200 BC, challenging previous views of settlement development in Western Europe. The findings indicate a community involved in craft production, ceremonies, and long-distance trade.
The collapse of the Late Bronze Age around 1177 BC, once attributed to single events like Sea Peoples' attacks, is now understood as the failure of an interconnected trade network spanning the eastern Mediterranean, triggered by multiple stresses including drought, conflict, and the simultaneous failure of key trade hubs.
A digital facial reconstruction of a 3,500-year-old woman from Bronze Age Greece, based on archaeological findings, offers new insights into her life and challenges historical assumptions about women's roles in Mycenaean society.
