A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that ...

In ancient times, saying goodbye to the dead was anything but simple. Many cultures practiced elaborate rituals to honor lost ...

The new study showed that the frequency of people with dark skin was still high in parts of Europe until the Copper Age (also ...

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. It usually appears after the age of 45 but can occur at any age. The development of diabetes depends on too many other factors to accurately ...

In the city of Rome alone, the population was dynamic and harbored a large diversity of ancestries from across Europe and the Mediterranean from the Iron Age (~1000 BCE) through the Imperial Roman ...

Tamil Nadu may have been among the earliest sites for iron-making, according to new research. Archaeologists have uncovered iron objects at six sites in the state, dating back to 2,953–3,345 BCE, or ...

The report suggests that the State was among the first places on earth where smelted iron was used. In other words, the Iron Age perhaps began at least a millennium earlier than prevailing research ...

Why did the government take nearly five years to make the report public? We didn’t want to be hasty in laying claim to being the oldest Iron Age site in the country. We wanted to test multiple samples ...

The age marks a period when societies began using and producing iron widely, making tools, weapons and infrastructure. Parth R Chauhan, a professor of archaeology at the Indian Institute of ...