Aquileia was founded by the Romans in 181 BCE, initially as a military outpost, but it soon flourished as a center for trade, including forged metal, Baltic amber, wine, and ancient glass.

An analysis of a 2,300-year-old text and coins has helped researchers decipher ancient recipes for bronze, including two linguistically elusive ingredients. The Kao Gong Ji, the oldest known ...

The Irulegi hand is a sheet of bronze 14 centimetres long, 12.8 cm wide and just 0.1 cm thick, with a greenish patina.

Archaeologists discovered an ancient bronze artifact, the hand of Irulegi, with writing in an early Basque alphabet previously unknown. Photo from Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi Archaeologists in ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient bronze artifact, the hand of Irulegi, with writing in an early Basque alphabet previously unknown. Photo from Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi Archaeologists in ...

The discovery of perfectly preserved 2,000–year-old bronze statues in sacred thermal springs outside Rome will “rewrite history,” authorities said.

The ancient text includes six chemistry formulas for mixing bronze and lists items like swords, bells, axes, knives and mirrors, as well as how to make them.For the past 100 years, researchers ...