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

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

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

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

The research, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, found that about 26 specimens of ornaments, ...

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 ...

The area was brimming with iron smelting activities, and the team of researchers has found physical evidence of this. One day, while sifting through some soil, the team unearthed an ancient ...

A museum has been built around the ancient Bronze and Iron Age cemetery ... examining the items to learn about the origins of iron smelting. “The point of my research is to find out who, when ...