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

(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 ...

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 ...

Weapons dating back to the Iron Age have been found during the construction of a freeway in Denmark. The excavation took ...

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 ...

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.

Invented civilizations are usually thought of as the stuff of sci-fi novels and video games, not museums.Yet in 1972, the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University exhibited “The ...

In February 2022, Graeme Cavers and his team of archaeologists set off in search of a mysterious underground passage called a souterrain. There are around 500 of these Iron Age structures scattered ...

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 ...

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 ...