Of course, winning an Olympic medal (even one for third place) is, in some sense, a priceless experience. But how much is a bronze medal worth, really? Do you even know what bronze is? This ...

We have no written evidence about how people lived in Europe during the Bronze Age (2300–800 BCE), so archaeologists piece together their world from the artefacts and materials they left behind.

The six mines may help explain the source of the metal used in Bronze Age Scandinavian artifacts.

Around 2,300 years ago in a region just north of modern-day Shanghai, scribes recorded six meticulous recipes that have puzzled researchers ever since. They weren’t for a particular food that today’s ...

A metal detectorist in Switzerland has unearthed a bounty of Bronze Age jewelry alongside fossilized animal remains in a farmer's freshly plowed carrot field. Franz Zahn made the discovery in August ...

Bronze Age Europeans earned and spent money in much the same way as we do today, indicating that the origins of the “market economy” are far more ancient than expected. That is the controversial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two metal detectorists have unearthed three complete Bronze Age gold torcs at a site north of Carlisle where National Grid is ...

If you’re looking for a statement watch to stand out in the crowd for all the right reasons, it’s time to consider a bronze case. As one of the earliest metals known to man, bronze has a storied ...