“More excavations in Khaybar and other Bronze Age settlements in the region are needed to assess the level of socio-economic complexity during this period,” researchers wrote.

A small 4,400-year-old town in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia hints that Bronze Age people in this region were slow to urbanize ... near the city of Al-'Ula in the Hejaz region of western Saudi ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a 4,000-year-old settlement tucked away in a Saudi Arabian oasis. The Bronze Age town, which is believed to have housed roughly 500 residents, sheds light on ancient ...

A prehistoric settlement dubbed Peterborough’s Pompeii ... an archaeologist said. The Bronze Age homestead of around 10 circular wooden houses on stilts, above a river, could potentially have ...

The discovery of a Bronze Age settlement in Saudi Arabia suggests north-west Arabia was “slow” to urbanise, a new study has found. The growth of large urban settlements, when large numbers of ...

Archaeologists have been excavating a Bronze Age settlement near Cambridge in the east of England and have discovered it was destroyed in a large fire. During the fire buildings which were built ...

But 70 volunteers, led by professional archaeologists, have uncovered remains of a Bronze Age settlement underneath the Viking structures. Duddon Valley Local History Group said the discovery was ...

The dead were cremated, and buried in small cemeteries behind each settlement. The large burial sites of the early Bronze Age were a thing of the past, as the land was now needed for agriculture.

"It shows we can't just assume they were primitive." Experts said the site was the only known stilted Bronze Age roundhouse settlement in Britain. Digging has also revealed "by far the largest ...