A rare bronze inspired by a 2,000-year-old masterpiece vanished for 150 years, then became the most expensive neoclassical sculpture ever sold

A 19th-century bronze sculpture, the Hamilton Laocoön, sold for £13.6 million at Sotheby's. This price established a new ...
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Oops! Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was actually a woman, DNA reveals

A DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that ...

Bronze Age ‘shaman,’ previously assumed to be a male metalworker, was actually a woman

Bronze Age remains once thought to belong to a revered male metalworker are in fact female, new DNA analysis has found, ...
Phys.org

What did Bronze Age people do with all that bronze? New research revives old arguments about the nature of money

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 artifacts and materials they left behind.
Architectural Digest

How to Decorate with Bronze in Winning Fashion

Our website, archdigest.com, offers constant original coverage of the interior design and architecture worlds, new shops and products, travel destinations, art and cultural events, celebrity style, ...
NPR

In Defense Of Bronze: The True Mettle Of The Metal Of The 3rd-Place Medal

As hierarchies of merit go, it's got long historical legs, stretching all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Not — as many believe — to the ancient Olympic Games, however; those athletes just got ...
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The Best Bronze Watches to Buy

Bronze has been around almost as long as horology. First used in weaponry and decorations around 4,000 BC — roughly when the first water clocks appeared — it’s mankind’s oldest alloy. Concocted of ...