Each cargo load, despite being discovered in the same port, dated back to a different time period of the Iron Age.

Archaeologists have uncovered an Iron Age cemetery around an earlier prehistoric burial mound in Germany. The remains were discovered close to the River Weser in the Minden-Lübbecke district of North ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...

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

Metal detectorists scanning a Baltic Sea beach in Poland have discovered a spectacular Hallstatt period dagger dating back approximately 2,800 years. The intricately decorated weapon, found embedded ...

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 ...

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An expansive grave site used by different cultures over the course of hundreds of years has been excavated in Minden-Lübbecke, a district of northwestern Germany near Hanover. The discovery came at ...

An ancient necropolis discovered near Naples, Italy was used to bury the dead about 2,800 years ago, around the time the city of Rome was founded about 100 miles (161 kilometers) to the northwest. The ...

Excavations at Thirumalapuram reveal Iron Age culture near Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, with unique artefacts unearthed.

Pupils have stepped back in time to experience life in the ancient world. Year 3 pupils from Meadow Park Academy in Reading visited Butser Ancient Farm, an open-air experimental archaeology museum in ...