New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

Since the 5th millennium BCE, but particularly during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages (13th to 9th centuries ... confined to the locations of the ancient smelting furnaces,” and well within ...

An ancient treasure in Spain contains meteoritic iron, proving early civilizations worked with celestial metals centuries ...

was used to craft elite objects in some ancient cultures before the advent of iron smelting technology. To test their theory, the team carefully sampled the bracelet and hemisphere, subjecting the ...

A model of a wind-powered furnace newly set up in the Martin Wickramasinghe museum in Koggala brings to life an ancient iron smelting industry. By Renuka Sadanandan, Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara ...

It's not clear how the Bantu gained their skills in iron working. The great smelting tradition of the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe (around 500 BC) did not spread either further west or towards the ...

Chennai: Proclaiming to the world, ‘The Iron Age began on Tamil soil,’ Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said, with immense pride and unmatched satisfaction, that the use of iron in Tamil ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...