New research on a Spartan hydria from Ártánd shows how Iron Age elites forged distinct identities, aligning with Balkan ...

The recent discovery of an ancient shipwreck’s cargo has illuminated Iron Age trade networks and revealed a previously lost ...

Did Tamil Nadu rewrite Iron Age history? New findings reveal iron-smelting here dates back to 3345 BCE—2,000 years before the rest of the world. German election results in charts MSNBC Chief Plans ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women ...

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.

One of the biggest Iron Age hoards ever seen, the Melsonby Hoard, contains chariots, tires, harnesses, many other ancient ...

New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Published recently in ...