As iron replaced bronze, civilizations across the world entered a new era of warfare, tools, and technology. This period marked major shifts in society, trade, and power. 58 shot, 8 dead, in Chicago ...

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 ...

One of the biggest Iron Age hoards ever seen, the Melsonby Hoard, contains chariots, tires, harnesses, many other ancient ...

Roman connections with Britain stretch back to (at least) the mid 1st century BC, but what has archaeology revealed about the ...

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.