Japanese archaeologists have found clues in Türkiye to how ironmaking began, Tokyo’s public broadcaster NHK reported Tuesday.

NHK has learned that Japanese archaeologists excavating a site in central Turkey have found heated iron ore from a stratum ...

This challenges the notion that the Hittite Empire used iron first, redefining the timeline of iron usage in global archaeology. CHENNAI: Iron Age could well have begun in today's Tamil Nadu ...

A recent study by Dr. Albert Jambon and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, revealed the presence of meteoric iron in Early Iron Age ornaments in Poland.

Earlier, people of the Hittite Empire (Turkey) were believed to be the first to use iron, in 1,380 BCE. On January 23, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin claimed that the Iron Age began in the ...

These new dates establish Tamil Nadu as the site of the earliest known Iron Age civilization, making it potentially the oldest in the world. Earlier, the Hittite Empire (in modern-day Turkey ...

which makes the Iron Age here the oldest in the world. Earlier, people of the Hittite Empire (in today's Turkiye) were believed to be the first to use iron, in 1,380 BCE. "We have scientifically ...