Iron Age
Scandinavia's largest prehistoric mound is not a tomb, but a memorial to a natural disaster - study
Archaeological excavations that have taken place at Raknehaugen, have all failed to discover evidence that would typically indicate a burial mound, such as a grave or human remains.
Iron Age hoard rewrites history of wagons in Britain, may have been part of royal memorial - study
Archaeologists unearth at least five Gaul skeletons buried sitting upright during Paris excavations
Ancient Polish 'princess' burial date revealed after decades of archaeological mystery - study
Canine remains discovered in Bulgaria show dog meat may have been Iron Age delicacy - study
The Greeks, as well as the Thracians, who lived in what is now modern-day Bulgaria, are believed by researchers to have consumed dog meat.
Civil Administration recovers dozens of looted artifacts from West Bank site
A targeted operation at "Burj Lasana," in Area B, near Wadi Haramiya, recovered Crusader- and Byzantine-era items from a villa built inside the site.
Celtic teenager buried face down in Dorset pit may reveal Iron Age human sacrifice
"This has the sense of a body thrown into a pit, with hands potentially tied," archaeologist Miles Russell said.
Sunken secrets: earliest iron-age cargoes in Israel’s Tantura lagoon
Research in Antiquity identifies the three wrecks as Israel’s earliest submerged cargoes, proving coastal trade survived long after the late bronze age collapse.
Microscopic Clues Rewrite History of Bronze Production in the Biblical Highlands
Analysis of 3,000-year-old smelting droplets shows copper from Timna and Feinan was alloyed with tin at a mountain site in Samaria, revealing a budding regional trade and technology network.
Oldest known use of harmal as incense discovered at Iron Age site in Saudi Arabia
Advanced metabolic profiling techniques revealed organic residues of harmal in Iron Age fumigation devices.
Banana traces in 3,000-years-olf Philistine teeth rewrite Iron Age trade map
Banana remnants in 3,000-year-old graves at Tel ‘Erani show the fruit reached the Judean coast by 1000 BCE, reshaping views on Iron Age trade and Philistine burial customs.
Miniature black juglets reveal Iron Age burial practice in Jerusalem cemetery
Israel Antiquities Authority paper records 49 black-fired vessels in a single Mamilla tomb and tracks their decline across the late eighth to early sixth centuries BCE.
Seeds, 3-D scans and Iron-Age artefacts deepen case for Holy Sepulchre’s biblical garden
Fresh finds beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre add hard evidence of a first-century garden and the site’s earlier life as a quarry.
3,000-year-old necropolis discovered in Al Ain, UAE
"The burial traditions of the Iron Age have always been a mystery to us," said Jaber Saleh Al Marri, Director of the Historical Environment Department at DCT Abu Dhabi.
