The Maghreb, where the Sahara meets the Mediterranean, has always been more than a borderland. With its strategic location ...

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into the era’s namesake gold-colored metal has long puzzled archaeologists. A big part of the answer ...

A new study has revealed that 3,300 years ago, tin mined in south-west Britain was a key resource for major Bronze Age civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean thousands of kilometers away.

A new study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled that large amounts of Bronze Age tin may have originated from Cornwall and Devon in southwest Britain, where the richest and most accessible ...

A new study has revealed the surprising role British innovation played in spurring Bronze Age civilizations across Europe, according to a new study published in the journal Antiquity. By analyzing ...

which for many centuries was the preferred metal for tools and weapons. Yet sources of tin are very scarce – and were especially so for the rapidly growing bronze age towns, cities and states around ...

The Bronze Age began some 5,300 years ago with the first transition from copper to bronze taking place in the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent from where it spread outward. While bronze can ...

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 ...

Using resin reproductions of Bronze Age figurines, UC Assistant Professor ... deposited after people left the settlement. Sorin used tools such as photogrammetry and lasergrammetry to create ...

A “treasure trove” of priceless Bronze and Iron Age artifacts have been unearthed by archaeologists in Hungary, according to an article published in the journal Antiquity. Scientists working ...