Excerpted with permission from the publisher Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global,‎ Laura Spinney, published by ‎William Collins.

The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...

A worker produces metal bars for overseas clients in a factory in Zijiao township, Binzhou, East China's Shandong Province, on April 15, 2025. China's foreign trade in goods in the first quarter of ...

The phrase primum non nocere means first, do no harm. It was coined by the Greek physician Hippocrates to guide doctors and remains a key principle of medical practice. It is a great shame that such ...

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The Earth is full of riches. Once people discovered the importance of metals, they quickly found out where to get them from. The first mined metal may have been copper. When mixed with tin, this ...

A 3,000-year-old metal workshop in southern Georgia may hold the key to one of the most important turning points in human ...

Ancient copper smelters in Georgia may have accidentally paved the way for the Iron Age, providing new insights into human ...

The tin market is once again bubbling on supply chain trouble, this time in Indonesia, where the government has launched a ...

The team behind plans to reopen a tin mine have said they are optimistic they will begin commercial extraction by mid-2028.

Indonesia's Attorney General has confiscated 42,000 tons of tin sands from miners linked to a corruption case at state tin mining firm PT Timah, state media Antara reported.

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