The presence of such waste would provide the smoking gun for copper smelting among this group of ancient Anatolian ...

An analysis suggests the copper was exposed to temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees celsius, indicating a much more advanced ...

In the past few decades, humans around the world have made a lot of effort toward being more environmentally friendly.

The area was brimming with iron smelting activities, and the team of researchers has found physical evidence of this. One day, while sifting through some soil, the team unearthed an ancient ...

Mes Aynak’s landscape is completely deforested today, and it’s possible that ancient copper smelting played a role in the area’s denuding—which in turn may have ended copper production.

Ancient Greeks made their coins by extracting silver from lead-rich ore. Greece’s mining and smelting operations ended up seriously polluting Earth’s atmosphere, as modern scientists have ...