2nd millennium BC

Romanian and German archaeologists have discovered an 8-hectare late Bronze Age fortified city located on the lower Mures River near Arad in western Romania.

The Bronze Age civilization of the Mycenaeans collapsed due to an extended drought in the western Peloponnese, according to a study conducted by researchers Martin Finne and Karin Holmgren of the Navarino Environmental Observatory in collaboration with archaeologist Shari Stocker.

It was the day before International Women’s Day when I heard the news about the funeral of our Hittite Queen Puduhepa.

The "screaming mummy" is displayed at the Ancient Egypt Museum in Cairo.

In the more than two years since University of Cincinnati researchers unearthed the 3,500-year-old tomb of a Bronze Age warrior in southwest Greece, an incredible trove of riches has emerged, including four gold signet rings that have challenged accepted wisdom among archaeologists about the origins of Greek civilization.

Anck-Su-Namun, the third of six known daughters of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal wife Nefertiti, was born in 1348 BC. Later, Anck-Su-Namun became the Great Royal wife of her half-brother Tutankhamun.

A remarkable ancient Egyptian tomb has been discovered in the necropolis of Draa el-Naga, near Egypt’s famous Valley of the Kings.

Excavations at the Tayinat Mound in the southern Turkish province of Hatay have uncovered an ancient sculpture of a woman, around the same size as the statue of King Suppiluliuma previously discovered at the site.

The sculpture, which is made up of a head and body, is thought to date back to the late Hittite period in the 9th century B.C. 

Monumental discoveries in Iklaina, including an open-air pagan sanctuary, have reinforced the view that this ancient Greek town was no backwater as had been thought, but a major center of Mycenaean culture – that throws back the formation of the earliest complex states in ancient Greece by hundreds of years.

Bronze Age swords appear from around the 1700 BC, in the Black Sea region and the Aegean, as a further development of the dagger. From an early time the swords reach lengths in excess of 100 cm.