I smelted iron in brick furnaces using ancient metal methods. Controlled heat and airflow produced workable iron.

Two iron ankle shackles, buried for about 2,200 years in the Egyptian desert, have revealed new evidence of forced labor.

In Georgian mythology, the blacksmith is often portrayed as a magical figure endowed with superhuman strength—sometimes even ...

Under Labor’s watch, federal spending has reached 27 per cent of GDP, the highest since the 1980s (outside COVID). The ...

The steel and scientific community lost a beautiful soul, renowned engineer and major innovator, on 24 November 2025. At the ...

Archaeology is meant to help us understand our past. But sometimes it throws up objects that are so unusual, so advanced or so baffling that we can’t be sure what they really are or what they were ...

Announcing this, Habibollah Mahmoudian, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, told ISNA that the archaeologists have named the period from 1500 to 500 BC the Iron Age, while Iron Age I covers the ...

A Swedish plano-convex ingot once thought to be from the Bronze Age was revealed through chemical and isotopic testing to belong to the Iron Age. Its composition closely matches Iron Age finds from ...

Save articles for future reference. “What we want to be able to do is bring low cost, zero emissions steel to the masses effectively – everything from fabricating shops through to very large ...

A recent study by Dr. Omer Peleg and his colleagues examined the unique 7th-century BCE (Iron IIC) cremation burial assemblage discovered at Horvat Tevet. The assemblage is the richest and most ...

SÄRDAL, SWEDEN—According to a statement released by the University of Gothenburg, a team of researchers led by Serena Sabatini of the University of Gothenburg analyzed an intact plano-convex ingot—a ...