Without copper, which can be alloyed with tin to produce bronze, there would have been no Bronze Age. Bronze was a revelation—it is extremely durable and holds an edge better than other ...
North Wales was Britain's main source of copper for about 200 years during the Bronze Age, new research has found. Scientists analysed metal from the Great Orme, Conwy, and found it was made into ...
NARRATOR:The mines are where Bronze Age people dig for copper and tin to make metal. NARRATOR:The rocks containing the metal ore are often found in very narrow passageways, so that only small ...
This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. “To the King of Egypt, my brother. Thus says the King of Alashiya, your brother: ... Send your messenger ...
Before this, copper and tin were extracted (which led to the Bronze Age) and later, zinc. Exactly how each of these processes was discovered is lost in the mists of time, but it is likely that ...
Higham suggests that the the adoption of metallurgy, copper and tin smelting took place in South-east Asia following a period of trading with China, which provided the exotic bronzes. Using a thematic ...