ROME — Italian authorities Tuesday announced the extraordinary discovery of bronze statues more than 2,000 years old in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring and said the find would “rewrite ...

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But the belief that ancient sculpture was ... as the “Terme Ruler” and “Terme Boxer,” discovered in Rome in 1885. The reconstruction of these bronze figures uses different metal alloys ...

The bronzes, which were found in a perfect state of conservation alongside 5,000 gold, silver and bronze coins, include entire figures of deities, individual body parts and organs. The ancient ...

An ancient Bronze Age settlement was recently uncovered by archaeologists in the United Kingdom while a highway was being built. The Suffolk City Council described the site as a “Late Bronze Age ...

The structure is believed to have been a guard tower, a grave marker or even possibly an ancient monument. “It is an enthralling historical mystery,” the directors said in the release. Bronze ...

Published in the journal Antiquity, the results provide the first concrete evidence that Cornwall and Devon were major suppliers of tin for bronze production in the ancient world. For over two ...

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 ...