I’m not so sure my gripe is a problem so much as it is a source of confusion, particularly for brazing novices: Many of the ...

Why are two bronze medals given for some Olympic sports? The reason for giving two bronze medals differs in boxing from judo, taekwondo and wrestling. When Olympic boxing first began in 1904, the ...

As hierarchies of merit go, it's got long historical legs, stretching all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Not — as many believe — to the ancient Olympic Games, however; those athletes just got ...

Bronze has been around almost as long as horology. First used in weaponry and decorations around 4,000 BC — roughly when the first water clocks appeared — it’s mankind’s oldest alloy. Concocted of ...

For years, a humble scrap of folded sheet metal discovered in the Czechia’s Moravia region stumped archaeologists. Now, new analysis has shed light on its surprising origins, revealing it as a ...

Excavations on Somló Hill have produced one of the largest collections of late Bronze age and early Iron Age metal ever found in the region. Early Iron Age finds from Somló Hill in western Hungary.

As with every Color of the Year, Sherwin-Williams director of color marketing Sue Wadden and her team made their selection in February, “on the precipice of the world falling apart,” as Wadden puts it ...