Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there’s growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...

Experts reinvestigated a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia and found that what they believed to be an iron ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...

Archaeologists may have uncovered crucial insights into the origins of the Iron Age through the study of a 3,000-year-old smelting site in southern Georgia. The site, known as Kvemo Bolnisi, was ...