Known as the Treasure of Villena, this horde of brilliant golden treasure from prehistoric Spain reveals ancient metalworking secrets. Amid a dazzling collection of 66 mostly golden artifacts, the ...

Iron had already been used to some extent during the Bronze Age, but new metallurgy techniques propelled it to new heights. Iron is not as durable as bronze, and it is more difficult to smelt, but its ...

Meteor Metallurgy Using iron meteorite in the ancient world and prehistoric era isn't unprecedented. For example, researchers found an iron arrowhead in Switzerland and determined it was made ...

Metallurgy was brought to southern Africa by early Iron Age farmers who, about 2000 years ago, made the dangerous journey across the Limpopo River and moved down along the eastern coast into ...

Iron-nickel meteorites, which make up about 6% of all the meteors that survive re-entry, were worked by ancient peoples to create small items, tools, and ceremonial objects.

The sword is the perennial symbol of empires, knighthood, chivalry and fantasy. But it’s also one of the world’s most ancient technologies, connected with breakthroughs in metallurgy that ...

A cache of 3,000-year-old Iranian swords seized at Heathrow Airport have been revealed to be fakes created using ancient hilts and blades.. Collectors and museums began widely acquiring Iranian ...

As the masters of fire and iron, the blacksmiths perpetuate ancestral rites and social practices that confer on them an important role in their communities at Yamané, Kindibo and Douroula. Integrity.

Early Etruscans had advanced knowledge of art, farming and metallurgy, leading some historians to believe the civilization originated elsewhere before settling in what is now Italy. DNA analysis ...