Archaeologists have identified what they describe as the first direct evidence of intentional arsenical bronze production in Middle Kingdom Egypt, based on metalworking remains excavated from ...

A recent open-access study published in Archaeometry unveils the first direct evidence of arsenical bronze production on Elephantine Island, Aswan, dating to Egypt's Middle Kingdom (c. 2000–1650 BCE).

Researchers have uncovered evidence of ancient metallurgy on Elephantine Island, near Aswan, offering new insight into how advanced this science was among the ancient Egyptians of the Middle Kingdom.

The metals of antiquity are the seven metals which humans had identified and found use for in prehistoric times: gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, and mercury. 1 Although the circumstances ...

Toward the end of the 4th millennium B.C., a revolutionary technology emerged in the Near East: metallurgy, which gave its name to the prehistoric period we now know as the Bronze Age. Bronze was the ...

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The site of Habaqila is located in the area between Inner Mongolia and Liaoning provinces and dated to the 13th–11th centuries BC. It was identified as a metal production workshop of the Lower ...