New evidence has surfaced suggesting that the British Isles had developed maritime trade routes with the rest of the world as early as the Bronze Age. Researchers at Heidelburg University in Germany ...

This collection of tin ingots was collected by the owner’s grandfather in the 1920s, after he was invalided out of World War I. He was an accountant of a Cornish tin smelting company. When ...

Thu, October 27, 2022 Published on Oct. 26, 2022 Published on 2022-10-26T22:30:01+07:00 he Investment Ministry is seriously mulling over plans to restrict shipments of tin ingots in an effort to ...

Tin from the Mušiston mine in Central Asia’s Uzbekistan traveled more than 2,000 miles to Haifa, Israel, where the ill-fated ship loaded its cargo before crashing off the eastern shores of Uluburun in ...

Long-distance supply chains, vulnerable to disruptions from wars and disease outbreaks, may have formed millennia before anyone today gasped at gas prices or gawked at empty store shelves. Roughly ...

Tin was the critical mineral of the ancient world. It was essential to alloy with copper to make bronze, which for many centuries was the preferred metal for tools and weapons. Yet sources of tin are ...

The tin ingots found on a merchant ship that sank around 1320 BCE off what is now the west coast of Turkey near Uluburun may have originated in Cornwall, Britain, the Saxon-Bohemian Erzgebirge or the ...

New archeological evidence suggests Britain had cultivated trade routes with the rest of the world as far back as the Bronze Age. Heidelburg University researchers have revealed 3000-year-old tin ...

Tin ingots recovered from a shipwreck in Israel have been discovered to have an unlikely origin – Cornwall, in southwest England. Researchers from Heidelberg University and the Curt Engelhorn Centre ...

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