Philip Marsden's book Under a Metal Sky is an engrossing look at how we have excavated key metals and rocks over the millennia. It's a story shot through with awe, power, greed and hubris ...

It was Ireland's first copper mine. Currently, the museum is involved with an international study of metalwork from the Bronze Age. The new ax heads could lend some important information to the study.

A hoard of metal fragments found on farmland was the Bronze Age equivalent of a modern-day recycling bin, an expert said. The stash of copper-alloy debris, dating back more than 2,000 years ...

Cutting ties with continental Europe in around 3000 BC, ancient Britons abandoned innovation and shunned trade. Why did they ...

An ancient Bronze Age settlement was recently uncovered by ... Archaeologists also found cremation urns, a copper-alloy pin and fragmented fired clay weights. "This evidence indicates a settlement ...

archaeologists have debated where Bronze Age societies obtained tin, a globally rare but crucial metal for making bronze (typically 90% copper and 10% tin). The research team at Durham ...

Archaeologists excavated over 18,000 relics from the Late Bronze Age during their excavations, per the source. The ship was carrying cargo including copper and tin ingots, as well as pottery and ...

The island (a series of chiefdoms) was rich in copper ore - which helped turn it into a Bronze Age mercantile and economic superpower (because copper was one of the two key ingredients needed to ...

During the Nordic Bronze Age, from around 2000 to 500 BCE ... which evidence suggests was smelted from tin and copper mined as far afield as Spain and the British Isles. “It’s increasingly ...

Finds such as stone axes, copper fish hooks ... to make up for the fact that pulleys didn’t exist during the Bronze Age. “It has been a long and exciting journey from discovering ancient ...

An ancient Bronze Age settlement was recently uncovered by ... Archaeologists also found cremation urns, a copper-alloy pin, fragmented fired clay weights and a clay spindle whorl, along with ...