The recent discovery of an ancient shipwreck’s cargo has illuminated Iron Age trade networks and revealed a previously lost Mediterranean seaport, challenging long-held assumptions about ancient ...

New research on a Spartan hydria from Ártánd shows how Iron Age elites forged distinct identities, aligning with Balkan ...

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

CHENNAI – A groundbreaking archaeological excavation in Tamil Nadu is challenging existing global timelines for the Iron Age. Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that iron-making in the ...

For fans of Emma Frost, the book leans into a brief period in her history — specifically Gerry Duggan’s Invincible Iron Man ...

New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Published recently in ...

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.

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 ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

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 ...

Did Human Sacrifice Really Happen In Iron Age Britain?' "Classical sources tell us the druids are probably a combination of ritual specialists, philosophers perhaps involved in some political decision ...

On the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea stands a circular stone structure that tells of centuries of human occupation, from the Iron Age to the Middle Ages, and that in the 20th century ...