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 ...

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.

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A metal detectorist named Peter Heads discovered an “exceptional” Iron Age hoard ...

A stunning hoard of destroyed – yet still insightful – two-millennia-old artifacts were recently brought to light by archaeologists in the United Kingdom. The discovery was announced by Durham ...

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 find recontextualizes what we opreviously knew about the ancient civilization. A “treasure trove” of priceless Bronze and Iron Age artifacts have been unearthed by archaeologists in Hungary, ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...

Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been excavating since a metal detectorist found it in 2021. By Ali Watkins Reporting ...

The painting "Boadicea Haranguing the Britons" by John Opie (1761–1807), depicting the warrior queen Boudica of the Iron Age. (Public domain/Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — ...