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 ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have demonstrated a more eco-friendly way to make iron. The method eliminates greenhouse gases typical of conventional iron production methods says team ...

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.

Turning rock into metal is one of the oldest crafts in human history. Watch the process of smelting iron ore and forging a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how we ...

This finding suggests that the discovery of iron may have happened accidentally. Archaeologists may have uncovered crucial insights into the origins of the Iron Age through the study of a ...

Social worker in Fruita turns iron ore into iron as an act of self-care After some years in mental health crisis management, Iain Cooley takes a break to avoid burnout. They do this by creating iron ...

The rise of the Iron Age—and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And according to new research, a copper smelting site used roughly 3,000 years ago in ...

This global shift may have come as a result of smelters looking for ways to increase copper yields.