What’s changing the game isn’t simply new technology. It’s the ability to see beneath the surface—literally and historically.

Nondescript items can tell stories, good and bad, when archaeologists look at them.

New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how ...

In an approach reminiscent of the classic board game "Battleship," Stanford researchers have discovered a way to characterize ...

The University of Aberdeen student was working on a dig in Scotland when she found the relic that could be a rare discovery ...

The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, ...

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...

An ancient workshop unearthed in Egypt may offer new evidence for the Bible’s story of Moses. Researchers discovered a copper ...

Discover the ancient workshop in Georgia where an unexpected experiment may have sparked a revolutionary shift in metallurgy.