Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A metal detectorist named Peter Heads discovered an “exceptional” Iron Age hoard ...

The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how we left the Bronze Age behind – via a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop ...

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.

DNA recovered from an Iron Age burial ground in southern England reveals a Celtic community where husbands moved to join their wives’ families — a rare sign of female influence and empowerment in the ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women ...