A metal detectorist recently discovered not one, but two bronze and wood daggers that experts dated to over 3,000 years ago.

An alloy of copper and tin with a similar color to Nordic Standard copper finish. When exposed to the atmosphere, the surface will change gradually to a stable, dark chocolate brown or even black ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

The English Channel appears to have been a Bronze Age highway for delivering Mediterranean copper ingots and Cornish tin ingots to Scandinavia and for transporting Danish amber to Britain ...

Archaeologists excavating a field in the municipality of Kutenholz in the Stade District, in Lower Saxony, Germany, have ...

but the precious metal’s stodgier industrial metal cousin copper is shining, too. That rally may fade, though. Copper prices have taken off, gaining more than 20% in 2025 to just under $5 a ...

These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides of the Arabian Gulf resulted in shared musical traditions central to rituals and religious beliefs, Douglas’ team says.

In 2023 the ethnic militia that controls Wa state in the north-east, which is the source of most Burmese tin, suspended ...