Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The site, shown here, was originally excavated during the Soviet period and was relocated using hand draw maps from a 1964 book.

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 process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that furnace is the charcoal fire of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Describes the process of the smelting of iron in a clay furnace in the village of Dablo, in northern Burkina Faso, Africa. Discusses the history of smelting iron in West Africa as well as the tools ...

U.S. Steel’s notoriously outdated Edgar Thomson Works handles the molten substance left behind by smelting iron ore the same way it did 150 years ago: by dumping it into slag pits. They’re as low-tech ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: 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 ...