And as of 1500 BCE, bronze was the high technology of Eurasia. The Uluburun shipwreck contributed the most extensive collection of Bronze Age artifacts ever found in the Mediterranean. The sheer ...

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 pioneering study by Durham University experts has revealed one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries—where early Bronze Age societies obtained the tin to produce bronze. Using advanced scientific ...

That makes this find exceptionally rare. While bronze weaponry is not unusual in Central Europe, complete or even partial ...

The origin of the tin used in the Bronze Age has long been one of the greatest enigmas in archaeological research. Now researchers have solved part of the puzzle. They were able to proof that tin ...

By Michael Irving December 04, 2017 A new study has found that all iron tools from the Bronze Age, including King Tutankhamun's dagger, were made from meteoric metal University of Pisa View 1 Images ...

The 13-year-old girl in Hertfordshire in the U.K. turned up a further 64 artifacts dating back to 1300 BC.

Thirty years ago, some scholars suggested that this type of bronze figurine—of which 13 have been found in southern Scandinavia and northeastern Germany—was part of a Bronze Age system of weights.

The elite tombs on Cyrus date from the Late Bronze Age — between 1640 and 1050 B.C. — and were filled with hundreds of artifacts given as grave goods. (Image credit: Peter Fischer) ...

At Chicago’s Field Museum, what was thought to be a modern replica of a Bronze Age sword turned out to be the real deal. The artifact actually dates back 3,000 years, the museum announced last week.

During this era, which spanned 1050 to 771 B.C.E, bronze was used to craft weapons like swords and axes. It also went into cultural and religious artifacts, such as musical instruments and ritual ...

The origin of the tin used in the Bronze Age has long been one of the greatest enigmas in archaeological research. Now researchers from Heidelberg University and the Curt Engelhorn Centre for ...