Color dyes were an important trade commodity in the present day Mediterranean region during the Late Bronze Age. Now, a team of archeologists believe that the Greek island of Aegina was the home ...

Tyrian purple was a highly prized pigment developed in the Bronze Age, and it retained its status into the late medieval period. The ancient Greeks and then the Romans revered the royal color ...

A study uncovered why Iberians resisted adopting Greek bronze techniques, showing how social conditions guided their ...

But the second key ingredient, needed to make high quality bronze, was tin - and one of the best sources of tin in the ancient world was Cornwall. Tin played a crucial role in human history ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.