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 ...

Bronze Age beads found in Denmark match the blue glass inlays found in Tutankhamun's gold death mask, scientists claim. The discovery hints at some of the trade routes between Denmark and the ancient ...

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An analysis of artifacts retrieved from Bronze Age burial sites reveals that Denmark and ancient Egypt traded with one another 3,400 years ago, and possibly practiced similar religious rituals.

European-crafted glass beads found at three different indigenous sites in northern Alaska date back to the pre-colonial period of North America, in what is an intriguing archaeological discovery.

Glass beads the size of blueberries found by archaeologists in a Brooks Range house-pit might be the first European item ever to arrive in North America, predating the arrival of Columbus by a few ...

This story is part of the August 19 Edition of Good Weekend. See all stories. I’ve lost my blue glass beads and I miss them. The beads were a souvenir of a few days in a lakeside Italian town, but ...