{
  "id": 913997,
  "title": "Guangzhou crucibles provide earliest direct evidence of brass-making in East Asia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/guangzhou-crucibles-provide-earliest-direct-evidence-of-brass-making",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-14T20:20:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-guangzhou-crucibles-earliest-evidence-brass.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For centuries, scholars have read ancient documents describing the production of brass in 10th-century A.D. China. The problem was that the earliest physical evidence of brass production would be found nearly 600 years later, in the 16th century A.D.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}