After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

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 ...

A Swedish plano-convex ingot once thought to be from the Bronze Age was revealed through chemical and isotopic testing to belong to the Iron Age. Its composition closely matches Iron Age finds from ...

SÄRDAL, SWEDEN—According to a statement released by the University of Gothenburg, a team of researchers led by Serena Sabatini of the University of Gothenburg analyzed an intact plano-convex ingot—a ...

Announcing this, Habibollah Mahmoudian, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, told ISNA that the archaeologists have named the period from 1500 to 500 BC the Iron Age, while Iron Age I covers the ...

The discovery of the lost cargo from three different shipwrecks off Israel’s Carmel Coast is rewriting the history of Iron Age trade. Experts deduced the ebb and flow of trade patterns via 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.

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 ...

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An international research team has found that black eye makeup used between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE in the northwest of today's Iran contained natural graphite and manganese oxide—unlike the ...

The newly discovered information has archaeologists questioning decades of work. A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University (published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology) has ...

The find recontextualizes what we opreviously knew about the ancient civilization. A “treasure trove” of priceless Bronze and Iron Age artifacts have been unearthed by archaeologists in Hungary, ...