Study lead author Albert Jambon, an archaeometallurgist and professor emeritus at Sorbonne University in Paris, said the ...

Copper stands at the center of many of humanity’s greatest modern challenges as a critical mineral needed to power renewable energy and electric vehicles. This role is nothing new for copper—for ...

but the astonishing revelation of their true origins — a finding that molds our understanding of ancient Egyptian trade and ...

dating back to the Hallstatt C period (750–600 BCE), provides new insights into early Iron Age metallurgy and the role of celestial metals in ancient societies. This modest number of artifacts ...

The Hittites, an ancient Anatolian civilisation (c ... (died 1323 BCE), confirmed by analysis to have a nickel content of about 10 per cent. Small Egyptian beads made of meteoritic iron have also been ...

In a study published March 13 in the journal Antiquity, Redon detailed the rare discovery of shackles at Ghozza, the ...