Around 4,000 years ago, women in Nubia were using tumplines, a form of head strap, to carry around goods and young children.

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of ...

Archaeologists have discovered two remarkably well-preserved Bronze Age daggers which could shed light on the culture's ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

In a previous study, researchers identified a burial of two 12-year-old children flanked by eight ... But this interpretation ...

A new simulation suggests that ancient people in northern Denmark and southwestern Norway may have traveled directly between the two regions, crossing more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) of open ocean ...

Recent excavations at Başur Höyük, a Bronze Age settlement dating to around 3300 BCE, uncovered royal burial tombs that contained burial items and evidence of human sacrifice. Researchers ...

The Bronze Age cultures of what are now northern Denmark and southwestern Norway are quite alike, with similar artifacts, burial systems, and architecture. Cultural exchange between the two ...

Başur Höyük is a Bronze Age community dated to between 3100 BC and 2800 BC ... Researchers found that the burial was the case of adolescent females, mostly between 12 and 16 years of age, brought ...