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 ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age as the refining process of iron was discovered.

The re-investigation of a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia has provided new insights about the Iron Age. These insights are associated with a remote furnace dated back to around 1,200 ...

This finding suggests that the discovery of iron may have happened accidentally. Archaeologists may have uncovered crucial insights into the origins of the Iron Age through the study of a ...

At the Xiacaopu iron production site in Qingyang village, Anxi, East China's Fujian Province, a well-preserved smelting furnace workshop, along with several furnaces and tuyere pits have been ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...