Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis open to the public Thursday, October 17, 2024, through Sunday, March 16, 2025. Since John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech at Rice University galvanizing Americans behind ...

One of the 30 Late Bronze Age cremation urns unearthed. Credit: Archaeological Museum Hamburg A routine roadwork project has led to a significant archaeological discovery along County Road 17 between ...

FILE - Cameroonian-born curator Koyo Kouoh attends a conference at the New Africa-France Summit in Montpellier, France, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool Photo via AP, File) 34,366 ...

A new study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled that large amounts of Bronze Age tin may have originated from Cornwall and Devon in southwest Britain, where the richest and most accessible ...

It was essential to alloy with copper to make bronze, which for many centuries was the preferred metal for tools and weapons. Yet sources of tin are very scarce – and were especially so for the ...

The first smiths worked with copper and gold. Only when tin came to be added routinely to copper to make bronze did metal replace stone for tools and weapons. The innovation transformed Europe and ...

Excavations on Somló Hill have produced one of the largest collections of late Bronze age and early Iron Age metal ever found in the region. Early Iron Age finds from Somló Hill in western Hungary.

She also collaborated with UC's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning to reproduce ... Using resin reproductions of Bronze Age figurines, UC Assistant Professor Florence Gaignerot ...

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into the era’s namesake gold-colored metal has long puzzled archaeologists. A big part of the answer ...

A. Excavation pit around Hoard V, Somló Hill, Hungary; B. Photogrammetric representation of the in situ hoard; C. CT inspection of the assemblage; D. Contents of the hoard during excavation ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered more than 900 Bronze and Iron Age artefacts on Somló Hill, a striking volcanic formation in western Hungary better known today for its vineyards. The discovery ...