The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how ...

Experts reinvestigated a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia and found that what they believed to be an iron ...

Archaeologists have uncovered rare evidence of an Iron Age blacksmith's workshop that was in use around 2,700 years ago. The remains were unearthed by a team from DigVentures, a social enterprise ...

That experimentation, the researchers behind the study claim, likely gave way to actual iron production. Iron is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, but the process of ext ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Published recently in ...

An remarkably well-preserved child's shoe from the Iron Age has been found in Austria. The discovery was made by archaeologists from the German Mining Museum in Bochum during excavations at Dürrnberg ...

One year after the first wooden piles were driven into the waters of Loch Tay, the ambitious project to rebuild a crannog is ...