New research challenges the decades-old myth that ancient mines were environmentally hazardous sites. The researchers from Tel Aviv University show that copper production associated with King ...

“I’ve been working in Timna for the last 20 years, in the ancient copper mine. So this question was always in my mind, for my team and myself,” he said. Human impact.

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.

"The environmental pollution resulting from copper production at King Solomon's Mines was minimal and spatially restricted – posing no threat to the region's residents, either in antiquity or today.

Photograph of exhibit of collection of materials from ancient cooper mining operations of the Lake Superior copper region, U.S. National Museum, 1962. Smithsonian Institution Archives, negative number ...

“There is nothing like Timna in the world,” says Gal. “The copper mines that the [ancient] Egyptians dug here is the story of Timna.” Solomon’s mines . Archeologists first began investigating the ...

Ancient native copper mines on Isle Royale named national landmark Rock rubble marks sites on Isle Royale where indigenus people mined for copper as far back as 4,500 years ago. The site has been ...

Copper mines in Israel's Negev Desert — ancient sites that may have inspired the legend of King Solomon's mines of gold — were abandoned 3,000 years ago, when people there used up all the ...

Pharaoh-Branded Amulet Found at Ancient Copper Mine in Jordan. News. By Megan Gannon published 19 September 2014 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Neil Emmerson/Corbis. Back in the 1930s, when archaeologists excavated an ancient copper mine in Israel, they named it Slaves' Hill. Mining and refining copper is backbreaking work, and scholars ...