Researchers in northwestern France have been examining a Bronze Age rock with mysterious markings, hoping that the 4,000-year-old slab of stone may help lead them to the discovery of other ancient ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a chain of more than 50 coastal forts, up to 4000 years old, on an island in the Outer Hebrides. The first of the promontory forts on Lewis was found three years ago ...

Archaeologists Andrew George and Junko Taniguchi decoded 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets, uncovering 61 omens predicting civilizational downfall and leader deaths through lunar eclipses.

Last summer's discovery doesn't clear up the 4,000-year old puzzle, but it has been hailed by one of the country's top corn men as an important step toward its solution. "It is possible ...

The Babylonians, who lived in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran), predicted omens by analyzing the time of night, movement of shadows, duration, and date ...

The Bronze Age axe-heads appear to have been packaged using a flapjack box Two axe-heads, which are believed to be more than 4,000 years old, have been sent to the National Museum of Ireland by an ...

A 4,000-year-old copper dagger has been discovered in the dense woods near Korzenica, southeastern Poland. Unearthed by Piotr Gorlach of the Historical and Exploration Association Grupa Jarosław ...

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