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

proposed she had been buried at Stonehenge (already thousands of years old by Boudica's time), while others suggested she might have been buried in one of the many Iron Age tombs in southern Britain, ...

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 ...

Experts reinvestigated a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia and found that what they believed to be an iron ...

Nearly 3,000 years ago, groups gathering for feasts in southern Britain gnawed the meat off enough bones to generate massive trash heaps. These mounds, which became part of the British landscape, are ...

Archaeologists may have uncovered crucial insights into the origins of the Iron Age through the study of a 3,000-year-old smelting site in southern Georgia. The site, known as Kvemo Bolnisi, was ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in England’s Cotswolds region have unearthed a large Iron Age settlement—and the ruins of what could be a Roman villa built on top of it. The excavation took place near the village of ...