Jambon and his team discovered four iron pieces containing “heavenly metal,” as they called it, including two bracelets, an ...

Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s ...

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The discovery forms 'one of the biggest collections' of the extra-terrestrial ingredient of any archaeological site ...

NHK has learned that Japanese archaeologists excavating a site in central Turkey have found heated iron ore from a stratum ...

Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes ...

Secret ingredient from space found in unearthed Iron Age ornaments - Artefacts form ‘one of the biggest collections of ...

An ancient treasure in Spain contains meteoritic iron, proving early civilizations worked with celestial metals centuries ...

linking the development of ancient metal smelting practices to long-term environmental change Ella Jeffries The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records ... In antiquity, lead was released into the atmosphere as a byproduct of smelting ore for copper and silver. The toxic metal later condensed as ...