There are also ancient copper mines there in Jordan, and there are some studies arguing that the current Bedouins suffer from this ancient pollution,” Ben-Yosef said. Potential pollution from ...

The new study contradicts a series of papers published since the 1990s about pollution caused allegedly by the ancient copper industry. Prof. Ben-Yosef explains, "We demonstrate that this is not true.

In 1848 the first of these old mines was discovered, and in it was found a mass ot pure copper, weighing six tons, which had been raised by ancient wedges, and rolled along the gallery.

Land mines left behind by the Soviets in the 1980s ... Mes Aynak’s landscape is completely deforested today, and it’s possible that ancient copper smelting played a role in the area’s ...

The Ministry of Information and Culture has announced that dozens of artifacts from the Mes Aynak archaeological site in Logar have been tr ...