Much like mines in the modern age, scholars have long assumed that ancient mining and metallurgy were highly toxic and ...

Copper production associated with the mines of the Biblical King Solomon may not have harmed the workers involved—nor present a threat to locals in the present day. This is the conclusion of a ...

New research challenges the decades-old myth that ancient mines were environmentally hazardous sites. The researchers from ...

Mazar: It seems to me that Jerusalem at the time of King David and King Solomon was very much like the Bible describes. It was monumental; the constructions were massive. They used the Phoenicians ...