Bronze Age

A Bronze Age ship sailed the Persian Gulf 4,000 years after its design

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Texts on an ancient clay tablet have allowed experts to reconstruct a Bronze Age ship made of reeds and set it on its maiden voyage off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab … Read more

A Bronze Age ship sailed the Persian Gulf 4,000 years after its design

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Texts on an ancient clay tablet have allowed experts to reconstruct a Bronze Age ship made of reeds and set it on its maiden voyage off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab … Read more

Remains of an ancient diner still remain in a Bronze Age village 2,850 years later

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Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. Every old object has a story to tell. When researchers dust off an object during an excavation, a new window opens into the past. Each piece recovered is a small clue … Read more

Remains of an ancient diner still remain in a Bronze Age village 2,850 years later

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Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. Every old object has a story to tell. When researchers dust off an object during an excavation, a new window opens into the past. Each piece recovered is a small clue … Read more

‘Britain’s Pompeii’ reveals a Bronze Age village frozen in time

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. It is late summer, 2850 years ago. A fire engulfs a stilt village perched above a boggy, slow-moving river that meanders through the wetlands of eastern England. The tightly packed roundhouses, built just nine months … Read more

‘Britain’s Pompeii’ reveals a Bronze Age village frozen in time

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. It is late summer, 2850 years ago. A fire engulfs a stilt village perched above a boggy, slow-moving river that meanders through the wetlands of eastern England. The tightly packed roundhouses, built just nine months … Read more