A newly discovered Bronze Age city has given archaeologists some insight into how one settlement managed to avoid the urbanization process and remain relatively closed-off from nearby towns.

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient settlement and cremation cemetery dating back 3,000 years ahead of highway construction at Europa Way in northwest Ipswich, in the United Kingdom.

The large town, which was home to up to 500 residents, was built around 2,400 BC during the early Bronze Age, the researchers ... urbanization" than such city-states, one "more modest, much ...

This type of fortified settlement was common in northern Arabia during the Early and Middle Bronze Age, when other regions were already showing higher levels of social and architectural complexity.

Archaeologists who excavated the site soon thereafter discovered that the mounds were, in fact, remnants of a wall that surrounded a Bronze Age city that ... foot-tall bronze depiction of a ...

Do not shoot your arrows at the city, your sling-stones at the towers ... Levantine traditions from the Late Bronze Age also provide a vivid depiction of warfare during the second millennium, the ...

The ivory carving features a mythical sphinx — a human head on the body of a winged lion — as well as a depiction ... over a much older city — the deserted Bronze Age Hittite capital of ...

Now, a high-tech protein analysis of cauldrons used by nomadic people in present day Mongolia during the Bronze ... herds.” Depiction of cauldrons in the rock art of an Iron Age settlement ...