For five years, a French-Greek team visited nineteen museums and thirty-three archaeological sites to solve a riddle that had ...

A find that could have vanished Heads found the site in December 2021. Instead of digging up the objects himself, he stopped ...

The Iron Age revolutionized Africa and forever altered human civilization practically and symbolically. Technologies of iron smelting and forging, which likely began on the African continent around ...

On a dark night in late May 1543, a group of men snuck through the Native American town of Guachoya and stopped at the gated wall, where a body had recently been buried. Working quietly, they ...

The Treasure of Villena was discovered in Spain's Iberian Peninsula in 1963. El Museo de Villena In the ’60s, researchers discovered a trove of Bronze Age treasure in Villena, Spain. While most of the ...

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 ...

‘Remarkable’ hoard of Iron Age objects unearthed during routine excavation - A near-complete battle trumpet is one of only ...

An almost complete battle trumpet dating back around 2,000 years to the Iron Age has been unearthed by in England. According to the archaeologists who found it, the carnyx, as it is known, was part of ...

An iron object excavated in Fukui could be part of a saw dating to the late Yayoi Pottery Culture Period (second to third centuries) and the oldest known in Japan, researchers said. The artifact was ...