Traditionally, copper metallurgy is not thought to have emerged until millennia later, during the Chalcolithic period. Thus ...

a center of the copper trade, which was the island’s main source of wealth. Unlike the nearby ancient city of Salamis whose Roman ruins stand to this day (not to be confused with the Island of ...

Copper stands at the center of many of humanity’s greatest modern challenges as a critical mineral needed to power renewable ...

Buried below the ancient ruins is a lode of copper ore that extends two and a half miles across and runs a mile or more into the Baba Wali mountain, which dominates the site. It ranks as one of ...

In 1848 the first of these old mines was discovered, and in it was found a mass ot pure copper, weighing six tons, which had been raised by ancient wedges, and rolled along the gallery.