most probably did not suffer at all from any kind of health consequences” resulting from the mines, Ben-Yosef told The Times of Israel by phone. The study, “Pre-Roman copper industry had no ...

We found that pollution levels at the Timna copper mining sites are extremely low and ... hypotheses about global pollution during the pre-Roman period lack solid evidence. "There was a trend ...

In 1848 the first of these old mines was discovered, and in it was found a mass ot pure copper, weighing six tons ... The descendants of the Greeks and Romans are not like their forefathers ...