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.

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Archaeologists report a rare bronze axe found in Switzerland dating to about 1500 B.C., raising questions about Bronze Age ...

Bronze tools once defined entire civilizations, but their limits became clear once harder metals appeared. In this one-day challenge, a bronze knife is cast, polished, and sharpened to see just how ...

Milly Hardwick, a 13-year-old from Suffolk, England, was out metal-detecting with her father, when they stumbled upon an artifact which they joked could be an axe. The object turned out to be exactly ...

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The geographic origins of the metals in Scandinavian mixed-metal artifacts reveal a crucial dependency on British and continental European trading sources during the beginnings of the Nordic Bronze ...

Lustrous metallic paints are used to enhance the beauty of many products, such as home decorations, cars and artwork. But most of these pigments owe their sheen to flakes of aluminum, copper, zinc or ...