In Sarpsborg, Norway, one of the most impressive prehistoric rock carvings can be found. Known as the Bjørnstad Ship (Bjørnstadskipet) after the farm where it is located, it measures 4 meters long and 1.5 meters high, occupying the main part of a 40-meter-wide rock wall and being the largest Bronze Age rock carving in Northern […]
Bronze Age
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Radiocarbon Dating Corroborates Egyptian History and Biblical Texts, Pointing to the Realness of David and Solomon’s Kingdom
New evidence uncovered at the ancient city of Gezer in Israel provides important insights into the chronology of events in the region around 1000 BC. Archaeologists excavating at Tel Gezer have obtained radiocarbon dates from organic materials found in seven different stratigraphic layers spanning the 13th to 9th centuries BC. Gezer is well known from […]
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Archaeologists find King Hinz’s Hall, the Largest Meeting Hall of the Nordic Bronze Age
Archaeologists made an unparalleled discovery from the entire Nordic Bronze Age (2200 to 800 BCE) near the burial mound of King Hinz in Seddin, Brandenburg, Germany. There, the remains of the largest meeting hall of the Bronze Age have been uncovered, measuring 10 by 31 meters, a size unique for this period, at least in […]
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3,400-year-old Pyramid Built in the Bronze Age Uncovered in Kazakhstan
Excavation work at the Karajartas mausoleum, situated on a dominant hill overlooking the left bank of the Taldy River in the Shet district of the Karaganda province in Kazakhstan, was carried out by the Sari Arka Archaeological Committee of the University of Karaganda, totaling four excavation campaigns. Recently, Dr. Aibar Kassenali from the National Museum […]
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The fantastic cargo of the Uluburun, a Bronze Age ship of uncertain origin
In 1982 an amateur diver searching for sponges off the coast of the city of Kaç in Turkey came across something spectacular. The wreck of a ship sunk with all its cargo at the end of the Bronze Age, in the 14th century BC. The wreck and the ship were named Uluburun, after the strip […]
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Reliefs at the Hittite Sanctuary of Yazılıkaya Could Depict a Lunar Calendar
Yazılıkaya is a site about 3,200 years old believed to have played a significant religious role in the ancient Hittite Empire. According to a new theory, the reliefs found at the site may have served as a calendar to mark days, synodic months, and solar years. Yazılıkaya, which means carved rock in Turkish, is a […]
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Bronze Age Palace and Cuneiform Tablets Found in Iraqi Kurdistan
Archaeologists, both German and Kurdish, have discovered a Bronze Age palace and cuneiform tablets in Iraqi Kurdistan. The palace, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in the region of Iraqi Kurdistan, is believed to date back to the time of the Mittani Empire, which dominated much of northern Mesopotamia and Syria between […]
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The monumental rock relief excavated by the Hittites on Mount Sipylus more than 3,000 years ago
When he speaks of Laconia in the third book of his Description of Greece Pausanias comments that the inhabitants of Acriae boasted of having the oldest temple of the Mother Goddess in the Peloponnese. But immediately afterwards he mentions that the oldest image of that goddess is elsewhere: The people of Acriae say that this is the […]
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Mathematical Analysis of Mysterious Folkton Drums Suggests they May Be Measuring Units for the Construction of Stonehenge
The enigmatic Folkton Drums, found in the tomb of a Neolithic child, were discovered in 1889 near the town of Folkton in North Yorkshire: no similar artifacts have been found in any European site, and for now, their exact function remains unknown. These are three solid limestone cylinders shaped like drums, ranging from 12 to […]