Archaeometallurgists have been debating the exact origin of tin used in the Bronze Age for 150 years; a new study in Frontiers in Earth Science
The exhibition Sovereign Metals. Festivities, the Hunt and the Firmament in Medieval Islam, is held at the MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale
Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought