From statues to server racks, copper has been a mainstay metal for thousands of years. Dan Smith shows just a few of the ...

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 ...

An extraordinary discovery was made at the Valencina Copper Age mega-site in southwest Spain, which has captured the ...

There has been extensive research done on the Uluburun shipwreck relics. Additionally, there was a more recent excavation of another Bronze Age shipwreck off of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast in 2019.

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.

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 ...

Using a supply list from an ancient clay tablet, experts have reconstructed a large Bronze Age ship from 4,000 years ago and sailed it around the Persian Gulf.

During the Nordic Bronze Age, from around 2000 to 500 BCE, commodities of all kinds flowed in and out of northern Europe through long-distance trade networks that stretched across the continent.