An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and the ...

New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ...

Discover the ancient workshop in Georgia where an unexpected experiment may have sparked a revolutionary shift in metallurgy.

The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how ...

Nearly 200 Iron Age ingots found in Bosnia’s Sava River offer rare insight into ancient trade networks between Celtic tribes ...

As bronze faded and iron took its place, the ancient world transformed. Stronger tools, sharper weapons, and powerful empires emerged—marking a new era of human progress.

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.

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in Astoria, Queens. While she writes about most things edible and potable (and accessories dedicated to those topics,) her real areas of expertise ...

A museum has successfully raised the £10,500 needed to buy an Iron Age hoard found in a field. Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum wanted to buy the hoard including a 2,000-year-old brooch from a horse ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

An Iron age brooch made just before the Roman invasion was designed to be eye-catching, showing off the importance of its owner, says an expert. The piece of gilded silver jewellery was discovered by ...