It was made in the prehistoric period, an ancient bead 15cm long, tubular and consisting of black-and-white agate and orange carnelian rock. It was broken in two and buried, separately, with two ...

Bronze Age bigwigs in what’s now Denmark wore brightly colored glass beads made in the workshops of Egyptian pharaohs and Mesopotamian rulers, a new investigation finds. Trade routes connected Egypt ...

What can glass beads collected from the lunar surface more than 50 years ago teach scientists about the Moon’s volcanic history? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a ...

A large team of archaeologists, historians and prehistory specialists affiliated with a host of institutions across Spain has confirmed the existence of the largest single-burial assemblage of beads ...

The raw materials for ancient glass beads found in former Rhaetian settlements in Bavaria clearly did not originate from this region. This is the conclusion following an analysis of the beads at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep in the Andes mountains, the weathered walls of an ancient town poke out from the dried dirt. The ruins were discovered in the ...

Blackened and corroded beads have turned out to be the oldest objects made in iron ever discovered, beaten out from pieces of meteorite in ancient Egypt more than 5,000 years ago. The nine beads were ...

Scientists have demonstrated techniques used to produce ancient glazed beads. The raw materials for ancient glass beads found in former Rhaetian settlements in Bavaria clearly did not originate from ...