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Gold double pendant, Panama, Veraguas, 11th–16th century AD. ... By the time of the Spanish conquest, a bronze-smelting technology had already been developed ...
The Eberswalde Hoard or Treasure of Eberswalde (German: Eberswalder Goldschatz or Goldfund von Eberswalde) is a Bronze Age hoard of 81 gold objects with a total weight of 2.59 kg (83 ozt). [1] The largest prehistoric assembly of gold objects ever found in Germany , it is considered to be one of the most important finds from the Central European ...
Around 1,500 gold objects dating to the Bronze Age survive in collections, around 1000 of them from Ireland and the other 500 from Britain; this is a much smaller number than would have been originally crafted, leading archaeologists to believe that "many thousands of gold objects were made and used" in the Bronze Age British Isles.
The Milton Keynes Hoard is a hoard of Bronze Age gold found in September 2000 in a field at Monkston Park in Milton Keynes, England. [1] The hoard consisted of two torcs, three bracelets, and a fragment of bronze rod contained in a pottery vessel. [2] The inclusion of pottery in the find enabled it to be dated to around 1150–800 BC. [1]
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily ... The Seagram Building was the first time that an ... The usage in part arose from the trio of gold, silver and bronze to ...
French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard (1758 – died after 1806), Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815) Ormolu (/ ˈ ɔːr m ə ˌ l uː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way.
31 "Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue – an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was ...
The Bronze Age (c. 3300 – c. 1200 BC) was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of the three-age system, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age. [1]