New study reveals Cornish tin fueled Bronze Age Mediterranean civilizations.© (photo credit: R. Alan Williams & Great Orme Mines, Antiquity) ...

Writing on clay tablets from Bronze Age sites in what’s now Turkey and Iraq refers to tin arriving from far to the east as early as around 3,900 years ago. But precise sources for eastern tin ...

Archaeologists excavated a Bronze Age shipwreck off Turkey, uncovering copper ingots and Minoan artifacts revealing ancient trade routes.

Four 3,200-year-old lead ingots found in a shipwreck off the coast of Israel point to the existence of previously unknown Bronze Age trade links in the Mediterranean Sea, reports Judith Sudilovsky ...

The Late Bronze Age of the Mediterranean Sea basin was characterized by complex supra-regional relations and diplomacy, with trade and exchange of gifts being common practices. Now, lead ingots ...