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 ...

Smelting would not be necessary for meteoritic iron, which has appeared in other ancient artifacts from around the world dating back to before the Iron Age. The most well-known example was an iron ...

Throughout history, civilizations across the world have created materials that were way ahead of their times using limited ...

See it →Metal detectorist unearths ancient gold item — and stuns experts ... examining the items to learn about the origins of iron smelting. “The point of my research is to find out who ...

The findings hint that the ancient inhabitants of southern Poland ... value as it had in the Bronze Age before the discovery ...

While terrestrial iron required smelting, ancient civilizations sometimes used naturally occurring iron from meteorites, which already contained metal in a workable form. One of the most famous ex ...

Ancient copper mining and smelting activities here have been linked ... Hebrew University—the team studied the skeletons of 36 Iron Age individuals who had lived at the Faynan mining site.

Without the invention of this process, called smelting, Bronze Age peoples couldn’t use the iron they found ... to confirm their suspicions. These ancient treasures came from a fallen meteorite.

A study uncovered why Iberians resisted adopting Greek bronze techniques, showing how social conditions guided their ...

A museum has been built around the ancient Bronze and Iron Age cemetery ... examining the items to learn about the origins of iron smelting. “The point of my research is to find out who, when ...