Even when scientists struggle to produce the purest forms of rust-free metals, this 14-year-old boy from Bantwal taluk is here to show the world that ancient Indian metallurgy and Indian chemistry ...
Decades of fieldwork in Libya’s Fezzan region have produced hard evidence that the Garamantes, an ancient Saharan people, ...
Ancient metal pollution trapped within the mud at the bottom of a lake in Peru reveals the Andean people were smelting copper as far back as 1,000 years ago. New research of the sediments allowed ...
Researchers have identified the ingredients in chemistry formulas from an 2,300-year-old Chinese text, revealing ancient metallurgy was more complex than expected. The Kaogong ji was written in China ...
6,500-year-old gold artifacts found near Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. The grave belonged to a high-status individual, showing early social inequality. Discovery strengthens Bulgaria's role in ancient ...
Located in the Deqen Tibetan autonomous prefecture in South China’s Yunnan Province, the Bronze Age Jicha site is associated with ancient metallurgy. Several new finds have recently been made at the ...
"In 2009, Perú was the world's leading producer of silver, the world's second leading producer of copper, and the leading producer of gold in Latin America. However, Perú's role as a producer of ...
Iranian archaeologist Vali Jahani, who presides over Gilan province’s cultural heritage department, has commented: “Iranian archaeologists, in collaboration with archaeometallurgists from the ...
Much like mines in the modern age, scholars have long assumed that ancient mining and metallurgy were highly toxic and dangerous, claiming the industry had a long-term, detrimental effect on the ...
Recent archaeogeophysical surveys in the cultural landscape of Masouleh, northern Iran, have revealed preliminary evidence of extensive ancient metal-smelting operations, shedding new light on the ...
EDMONTON, Alberta, April 19 (UPI) -- A Canadian-led study has reported the first scientific evidence that ancient Peruvian civilizations in the central Andes Mountains smelted metals. The study by the ...