An ancient treasure in Spain contains meteoritic iron, proving early civilizations worked with celestial metals centuries ...

Ancient metallurgy refers to the techniques and processes used by past civilizations to extract and manipulate metals for various purposes, including tools, weapons, and trade. Recent research in ...

It is possible to trace the story of humanity through the metal that we have extracted from the Earth's surface.

A new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment revealed that lead pollution in the Aegean Sea dates ...

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Much like mines in the modern age, scholars have long assumed that ancient ... the impact of metallurgy and mining on the landscape “was very minimal… and in modern times it’s huge.