If you’ve ever spotted a shiny copper bottle and thought it was just a trendy way to stay hydrated, think again! Drinking ...

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

Piotr Gorlach recently took his metal detector into Poland's Jarosław Forest, hoping to find military artifacts from World ...

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 ...

A study from Tel Aviv University dispelled long-standing myths about King Solomon’s Mines, revealing that ancient copper production in the Timna Valley caused minimal and localized environmental ...

The Romans occupied what's now Spain from 218 B.C. until roughly the fourth century A.D. The fortress burial included a " pugio " — the standard dagger of the Roman army — that suggests the dead man ...

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.

THE BODY of a Roman man buried face-down with a knife in his back – and missing his feet – has sparked mystery at the site of a huge, newly-unearthed fort. The eerie discovery was made ...

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 ...