A unique metal ingot discovered in the Swedish village of Sjardal turned out to be an object from the Iron Age, not the ...

A Swedish plano-convex ingot once thought to be from the Bronze Age was revealed through chemical and isotopic testing to ...

The size and shape of this ingot, discovered in isolation near Sweden’s southwestern coastline, suggested that it dated to ...

When a cache of Iron Age metalwork emerged from Swedish soil, it did more than add a few glittering artifacts to museum ...

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.

Archaeologists have uncovered rare evidence of an Iron Age blacksmith's workshop that was in use around 2,700 years ago. The remains were unearthed by a team from DigVentures, a social enterprise ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) Invented civilizations are ...

A recent study by Dr. Omer Peleg and his colleagues examined the unique 7th-century BCE (Iron IIC) cremation burial ...

TEHRAN--The Iron Age in Iran is not just a historical period; it is the narrative of thousands of years of life, migration, ...

Rare Bronze and Iron Age log boats unearthed upstream from a settlement dubbed "Britain's Pompeii" have gone on display for the first time. The vessels have been painstakingly conserved since their ...

An Iron Age grave found in Austria has been found to contain a number of treasures, including bronze jewelry, as well as, surprisingly, the remnants of textiles. It was also discovered that the body ...