The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...
Experts reinvestigated a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia and found that what they believed to be an iron ...
Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...
New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...
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 ...
Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, ...