But, “we see in Timna, that at least before the Roman period and probably even after the Roman period, these ancient copper industries were not that polluting,” he said.

“We have ancient mines that were active from the Bronze Age to the late Roman Period, and then we have the modern ones that started in the late 19th century,” Papageorgiou says, “yet the ...

Ancient Egyptians used so much copper, they polluted the harbor near the pyramids, study finds. ... Levels of copper during this period were "5 to 6 times higher than the natural background," he ...

Both ancient and modern mines for the extremely ... extracting copper was ... the researchers found evidence of a peak in lead pollution around 6,000 years ago during the Archaic period.

Using carbon dating, the same team reported in a new study, published in Geology, that the copper contamination would have begun around 3265 BCE, meaning the area was occupied by humans 200 years ...

In Afghanistan a fortune in copper ore lies buried beneath a trove of ancient Buddhist ... 2001—Mes Aynak seems to have thrived primarily because it was a copper extraction and ...

Ancient copper coins from the Chola dynasty and Vijayanagara empire were discovered on the Thenpennai riverbed near Uluthampattu in Cuddalore district. The coins, found during a field trip by ...

The ancient fishhook is 6.5 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide (2.5 by 1.5 inches) and made from perfectly preserved copper. Copper was a new technology in the Chalcolithic period, and most ...

A spiked copper wheel of Kushana era, an arrowhead of Rajput period and coins dating from the Mughal reign are among a range of ancient artefacts unearthed in the latest excavation currently ...