Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

The Greek island of Aegina was home to a Late Bronze Age purple dye workshop, according to a new study. The Greek island of Aegina was home to a Late Bronze Age purple dye workshop, according to a ...

Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke reveal elite tombs, trade links, and copper wealth at a major Late Bronze Age harbor city in ...

View of Aegina Kolonna with (inset, left to right) a 16th-century drawing of a purple snail; Hexaplex trunculus; and a purple pigment sample ...

Two Late Bronze Age tombs revealed in Hala Sultan Tekke, Larnaca Two chamber tombs, dating to the Late Bronze Age (14th ...

The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil ...

The collapse of several Mediterranean civilisations in the Late Bronze Age may have been caused by cascading instability across networks of political alliances and trade, according to simulations.

Assyrian sickle sword, Late fourteenth to early thirteenth century BCE: reign of Adad-nirari I (c. 1307-1275 BC) (Met Museum) Warfare is a part of history that has played an important role in human ...

Bronze Age life changed radically around 1500 BC in Central Europe. New research reveals diets narrowed, millet was introduced, migration slowed, and social systems became looser challenging old ideas ...

Aegina Kolonna: view of the site from the Northeast (Aegina Kolonna excavation, Department of Classics, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg). Small pictures from the left: drawing of a purple snail of ...