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.

Cypriot copper under foreign rule Under Roman rule, copper extraction in Cyprus was tightly controlled by the emperors, who oversaw its use primarily in paying soldiers with coins made from copper.

Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Builders Were Poisoned by Copper, Study Suggests It's unclear if residents living in the shadows of the Giza pyramids suffered health effects, but the finding offers a ...

Gunnison Copper Corp. is a multi-asset copper developer and producer that controls the Cochise Mining District, in the Southern Arizona Copper Belt. Its flagship asset, the Gunnison Copper Project, ...

An analysis of ancient human genomic data suggests that Copper Age farmers and steppe pastoralists may have interacted 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. The findings, published in ...

An extraordinary discovery was made at the Valencina Copper Age mega-site in southwest Spain, which has captured the attention of a team of Spanish researchers—a rare sperm whale tooth uncovered ...

In Afghanistan a fortune in copper ore lies buried beneath a trove of ancient Buddhist artifacts.

Episode 2. The copper trade off: Protecting today's lands versus preserving tomorrow's climate Copper is key to our green energy future, but copper extraction is deeply harmful to the environment now.

Before modern machinery, extracting copper was labor-intensive. Native Americans hammered it out of the rock—hard, dusty work that lofted fine particles of stone and metals into the air.

Researchers say the finds could help them understand the political and social changes going on in China during the Warring States period.

Shark was on the menu in Israel more than 6,000 years ago, archaeologists believe, after they uncovered one of the oldest known copper fishhooks in Askhelon. The fishhook was found in an ...

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 ...