Mining Rout. The Balkans: Cradle of Metallurgy

Results from laboratory tests at Britain’s Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgic Studies indicate that the current territory of modern-day Serbia constitutes the cradle of world metallurgy. The first metals were smelted seven thousand years ago in the district of the village Veliko Laole, on the site of today’s Belovode. Ore was mined at the nearby mining site… Read more