In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.

Their non-Greek language is confirmed on the site by inscriptions in the Cypriot syllabary which alone in the Aegean world survived the Bronze Age collapse and continued to be used down to the 4th century BC.

There is little doubt that a Mycenaean megaron stood upon the hill during the late Bronze Age.

Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea.

Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age.

A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age ( such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum ) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae.

Dating to the Greek Bronze Age ( 13th century BC ), it is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use.

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive.

It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal.

Though bronze is generally harder than wrought iron, with Vickers hardness of 60 – 258 vs. 30 – 80, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ; this happened because iron was easier to find and easier to process.

Bronze is considerably less brittle than iron.

Bronze resists corrosion ( especially seawater corrosion ) and metal fatigue more than steel and is a better conductor of heat and electricity than most steels.

Bronze is nonmagnetic.

Bronze is still commonly used in ship propellers and submerged bearings.

Bronze is used to make bronze wool for woodworking applications where steel wool would discolor oak.

Bronze is the preferred metal for top-quality bells, particularly bell metal, which is about 23 % tin.

Bronze is also used for the windings of steel and nylon strings of various stringed instruments such as the double bass, piano, harpsichord, and the guitar ..

Bell Bronze is used to make the tone rings of many professional model banjos.

The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons.

The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age system, as proposed in modern times by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, for classifying and studying ancient societies.

The Harappan culture, which dates from 1700 BC to 1300 BC, overlapped the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age ; thus it is difficult to date this transition accurately.

The Bronze Star Medal or Bronze Star is an individual military decoration of the United States Armed Forces that may be awarded for acts of heroism, acts of merit, or meritorious service in a combat zone.

Bronze strings are commonly reserved on pianoforte for the lower pitch tones, as they possess a superior sustain quality to that of high-tensile steel.

When the Secret Six attempt to break into Belle Reve prison, Bronze Tiger squares off with Catman to see who is the superior feline-themed martial artist.

2000 – 1650 BC Akrotiri developed into one of the Aegean's major Bronze Age ports, with recovered objects that had come, not just from Crete, but also from Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria, and Egypt as well as from the Dodecanese and the Greek mainland.

Indeed, just as we named the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Steel Age after the materials that humans could make, we might call the new technological epoch we are entering the Diamond Age ".

The earliest remaining features are two Bronze Age burial mounds, one just below the summit and the other on the summit itself.

Other scholars suggest there were just four ages, corresponding to the four metals, and the Heroic age was a description of the Bronze Age.

Carn Ingli hill, home to an Iron Age hillfort and some Bronze Age hut circles lies just outside the town.

In 1977 archaeologists excavated Iron Age, Bronze Age and Mesolithic material from Seamer Carr, just to the north of Star Carr.

Tentative evidence of Bronze Age habitation has recently been discovered just outside the boundaries of the village, and well-documented human settlement in the area dates from the Roman period.

Some time later a Bronze age ritual added a small stone and clay cairn just off centre inside the monument, with a 7 ft ( 2 m ) high standing stone to the east and a setting of smaller stones.

In just 2 generations from the fall of Troy ( by modern scholars dated in the late Bronze Age ) they arrive in the late 4th century AD at the Rhine.

Bronze Age worked flints have been found at three different locations in the parish, and there are traces of a Roman settlement just north of the present day village where Roman pottery has been found.

A line of three menhirs, or standing stones, known as The Devil's Arrows, believed to have been erected in the Bronze Age, can be found on the outskirts of Boroughbridge, just by the side of the A1.

One of the United Kingdom's best-known archaeological sites, the White Horse is a long Bronze Age hill figure, cut out of the turf on White Horse Hill on the Berkshire Downs, just south of the village of Woolstone.

Several Bronze Age barrows have been found just outside Cissbury Ring.

There is a Bronze Age round barrow just west of the village, measuring 31. 7m in diameter and the only known bell barrow in Wales.

Paleolithic, mesolithic and neolithic flints have been found at Doniford to the north-east of Williton while three Bronze Age barrows survive at Battlegore Burial Chamber, just north of the centre of Williton.

The islands and shores of this gulf, now joined together by silt, are crowded with Bronze Age foundries that worked tin and lead ; Penestin and the tin headland are just north of them ; and there can be no doubt that the famous tin islands were there.

Since 2009, limited edition of just 1, 000, is on sale the Ypsilon Versus, realized with a young brand in the Versace line, with Bronzino Bronze body, interior, and sports pavilion dedicated and looking for the brownish 16 ".

Sagaholm is Bronze Age cairn located just south of Jönköping, Sweden.