Bronze Age bigwigs in what’s now Denmark wore brightly colored glass beads made in the workshops of Egyptian pharaohs and Mesopotamian rulers, a new investigation finds. Trade routes connected Egypt ...

Archaeologists excavating Frattesina found thousands of ancient glass artifacts near a Bronze Age furnace used for glassmaking, photos show. Photo from Paolo Bellintani Brushing away the dirt covering ...

NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...

Scientists have demonstrated techniques used to produce ancient glazed beads. The raw materials for ancient glass beads found in former Rhaetian settlements in Bavaria clearly did not originate from ...

Recent research from UW-La Crosse and the University of Toronto Mississauga challenges the long-held belief that bead exchange networks across the Atlantic Ocean were primarily driven by European ...

Researchers have concluded that glass beads excavated from the tomb of a king in Fukuoka Prefecture were likely brought to Japan through the ancient Silk Road trade route network. A group of ...

Today, glass is ordinary, on-the-kitchen-shelf stuff. But early in its history, glass was bling for kings. Thousands of years ago, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt surrounded themselves with the stuff, ...

Learn more about these shimmery, orange and black beads on the moon that researchers describe as “tiny, pristine” time capsules. The moon was once a hive of volcanic activity. But while the vents have ...