Bronze Age
noun
: the period of ancient human culture characterized by the use of bronze that began between 4000 and 3000 b.c. and ended with the advent of the Iron Age
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Inside, six permanent galleries cover everything from Bronze Age settlements to the pearl trade (including the world’s oldest natural pearl) and the spread of Islam.
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Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 8 Dec. 2025
In the Late Bronze Age, when a combination of earthquakes, drought, and trade disruption ended the Egyptian, Mycaenaean, and Hittite empires, those who survived began to get healthier and taller, Kemp writes.
—Linda Kinstler, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The seeds date back to the Early Bronze Age and were uncovered alongside the remains of an ancient kitchen area.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Nov. 2025
Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once stood a Bronze Age settlement that may have served as a center of exchange and power around 1600 BC.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
Many wonders made the list, including royal burial grounds in Egypt, an Indonesian archipelago of 1,500 islands and Turkish cliffs formerly inhabited by Bronze Age troglodytes (cave dwellers).
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
See them On the northwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, archaeologists uncovered a gold brooch and a piece of jade from ancient Troy, dating back 4,500 years to the Early Bronze Age.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
By the Middle Bronze Age, evidence shows that cultures in the region often enjoyed one crop over the other.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
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Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 8 Dec. 2025
In the Late Bronze Age, when a combination of earthquakes, drought, and trade disruption ended the Egyptian, Mycaenaean, and Hittite empires, those who survived began to get healthier and taller, Kemp writes.
—Linda Kinstler, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The seeds date back to the Early Bronze Age and were uncovered alongside the remains of an ancient kitchen area.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Nov. 2025
Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once stood a Bronze Age settlement that may have served as a center of exchange and power around 1600 BC.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
Many wonders made the list, including royal burial grounds in Egypt, an Indonesian archipelago of 1,500 islands and Turkish cliffs formerly inhabited by Bronze Age troglodytes (cave dwellers).
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
See them On the northwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, archaeologists uncovered a gold brooch and a piece of jade from ancient Troy, dating back 4,500 years to the Early Bronze Age.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
By the Middle Bronze Age, evidence shows that cultures in the region often enjoyed one crop over the other.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
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