Although modern-day silvered glass mirrors have pretty much destroyed the market for bronze mirrors, these highly polished pieces of metal once were the pinnacle of mirror technology. Due to the ...

The golden age of pasta is now. That’s not a fact, but it is my hot take. The variety and quality of pasta available in ...

A surprising discovery in Spain could explain how metal made its way to Scandinavia 3,000 years ago during the Bronze Age.

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Swords first appeared during the Bronze Age. But scholars aren’t sure whether they were a prestige item — made for show — or designed primarily to kill. Swords developed on human beings over hundreds ...

A large-scale archaeological investigation ahead of a wind farm project in Lower Saxony, Germany, has revealed an unexpectedly rich and multi-layered landscape of human activity, ranging from early ...

As hierarchies of merit go, it's got long historical legs, stretching all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Not — as many believe — to the ancient Olympic Games, however; those athletes just got ...

Why are two bronze medals given for some Olympic sports? The reason for giving two bronze medals differs in boxing from judo, taekwondo and wrestling. When Olympic boxing first began in 1904, the ...

Bronze has been around almost as long as horology. First used in weaponry and decorations around 4,000 BC — roughly when the first water clocks appeared — it’s mankind’s oldest alloy. Concocted of ...

A wind farm construction project in Germany led to the discovery of Bronze Age jewelry, prehistoric settlements, and rare ...