A metal detectorist recently discovered not one, but two bronze and wood daggers that experts dated to over 3,000 years ago.

Archaeologists excavating a field in the municipality of Kutenholz in the Stade District, in Lower Saxony, Germany, have ...

A metal detectorist has unearthed a long, bronze sword that was bent into an S shape during an ancient ritual in what is now Denmark. The sword and other artifacts — which were found in a bog ...

The emergence of the Sea Peoples in the Late Bronze Age during a period of massive upheaval remains a mystery.

Officials said the daggers — estimated to have been forearm length — are among the oldest Bronze Age artifacts ever recovered in Lower ... rooted in religion or ideology and were not used as weapons ...

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

Created by digital artist Juanjo Ortega G., the digital reconstruction depicts a woman who died in her mid-30s during the ...

The beginning of the Bronze Age in Britain can be put around 2,000 BC. Although not certain, it is generally thought that the new bronze tools and weapons identified with this age were brought ...

"The daggers likely had ritual significance with a religious or ideological background," said Tobias Mörtz, an expert in Bronze Age weapons deposits. Archaeological Group Stade District ...

Officials said the daggers — estimated to have been forearm length — are among the oldest Bronze Age artifacts ever ... or ideology and were not used as weapons or in funeral rituals ...