Archaeologists have uncovered six previously unknown Bronze Age mines in southwestern Spain, offering a striking new clue ...

Bronze has been around almost as long as horology. First used in weaponry and decorations around 4,000 BC — roughly when the first water clocks appeared — it’s mankind’s oldest alloy. Concocted of ...

In the late Bronze Age, ca. 500-450 BCE, bells were made in sets that rang different notes according to size. Freer|Sackler In the year 433 BCE, Marquis Yi of the state of Zeng was laid to rest in his ...

Bronze, a copper-tin alloy, is renowned for its durability, strength, and versatility. Also known as phosphor bronze, it includes phosphorus as a deoxidizing agent and contains 11 % zinc and up to ...

Researchers staged fights using recreated Bronze Age weapons to better understand how they might have been used in ancient fighting. Hermann et al. / Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory To ...

Panerai’s new Luminor model can be personalized naturally because oxidation varies with every timepiece. By David Belcher Bronze resists corrosion, so Panerai — in a nod to 1860, when it began to make ...

After decades of debate and assumptions, archaeologists have picked up their Bronze Age swords to find out whether these soft metal weapons could really hack it in combat. For a long time, ...

Nomadic herders living on western Asia’s hilly grasslands made a couple of big moves east and west around 5,000 years ago. These were not typical, back-and-forth treks from one seasonal grazing spot ...