Archaeologists working in western Asia Minor say they have mapped a dense constellation of 483 ancient settlements that once filled the landscape between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian interior.

Bronze Age pottery unearthed in northwest China has revealed the secret to making red rice wine that was ceremonially consumed in the region in the second millennium BC. Previous research has ...

A new ancient-DNA study suggests the Bronze Age people who transformed Britain around 2400 BC didn’t arrive from Iberia, as older narratives of the “Bell Beaker” story sometimes implied. Instead, ...

Irrigation was used to maintain viticulture under changing climatic conditions, suggesting that ancient farmers took full account of the varying requirements of their crops through sophisticated ...

Until 20 years ago, little was known about the Bronze Age culture of the Hejaz, a mountainous region that abuts the Red Sea in western Saudi Arabia. Archaeological evidence was scant and the traces on ...

Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of unusual discoveries suggest. Excavations at a roughly 4,000-year-old settlement near the ...

Scanning electron microscopic (SEM)-image of transverse section of an olive charcoal sample dating to around 1900 BC from Tell Mozan (NE Syria). Farmers in the Middle East were more committed to wine ...

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