CHENNAI – A groundbreaking archaeological excavation in Tamil Nadu is challenging existing global timelines for the Iron Age. Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that iron-making in 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 ...

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

The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And according to new research, a copper smelting site used roughly 3,000 years ago ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

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 ...

An Iron age brooch made just before the Roman invasion was designed to be eye-catching, showing off the importance of its owner, says an expert. The piece of gilded silver jewellery was discovered by ...

Did Human Sacrifice Really Happen In Iron Age Britain?' "Classical sources tell us the druids are probably a combination of ritual specialists, philosophers perhaps involved in some political decision ...

System Of A Down have added a second UK date to their first European tour in nine years. An artist presale for the second Tottenham concert opens up at 12pm UK time today (September 17). The updated ...

Grape and olive farming traditions have changed through time based on shifts in climate and the needs of the local culture, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Simone ...

Irrigation was used to maintain viticulture under changing climatic conditions, suggesting that ancient farmers took full account of the varying requirements of their crops through sophisticated ...