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

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

An Iron age brooch made just before the Roman invasion was designed to be eye-catching, showing off the importance of its owner, says an expert. The piece of gilded silver jewellery was discovered by ...

More than 140 years ago, in a field in rural Somerset, one man made a remarkable discovery - a lake village. Arthur Bulleid, born and raised in Glastonbury, found the former Iron Age settlement on the ...

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.

So, my son says to me one day recently, “Mom, can we get an iron?” After I got over the shock of Mr. Always Rumpled presumably wanting to iron some clothes (unless he wanted to trick me into ironing ...

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 ...