A groundbreaking study has revealed that the Iron Age may have begun in present-day Tamil Nadu as early as 3,345 BCE, challenging previous historical assumptions by pushing back the timeline of iron ...

The largest hoard of gold coins from the British Iron Age, consisting of 933 pre-Roman coins, has been discovered in Essex.

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 amateur metal detectorist in Northern England has discovered an "unusual" 2,000-year-old hoard of artifacts that was burned and then buried. The Iron Age finding, named the Melsonby Hoard after the ...