The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how ...

Experts reinvestigated a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia and found that what they believed to be an iron ...

New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

Three thousand years ago, a group of metalworkers in what is now southern Georgia were trying to solve a problem. Their copper ores were messy, clogged with silica that turned to sticky glass in the ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

Describes the process of the smelting of iron in a clay furnace in the village of Dablo, in northern Burkina Faso, Africa. Discusses the history of smelting iron in West Africa as well as the tools ...