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 ...

The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how we left the Bronze Age behind – via a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop ...

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 ...

Development of a new golf course in the Scottish Highlands led to the discovery of an ancient cremation pit. Inside the circular pit, archaeologists discovered an Iron Age chariot wheel—believed to be ...

Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age as the refining process of iron was discovered.

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 ...

The re-investigation of a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia has provided new insights about the Iron Age. These insights are associated with a remote furnace dated back to around 1,200 ...

Archaeologists were excavating a site in the Scottish Highlands when they stumbled upon a large metal artifact. At first, they thought it was just a piece of old farm equipment. But when they took a ...

An anchor, basket handles, jars and other artifacts were found among the cargoes at the three sites, the oldest of which ...