Learn about the discovery of a 2,400-year-old iron-smelting workshop in Senegal, shedding light on the Iron Age in West ...

Archaeologists led by Anne Mayor Anne Mayor of the University of Geneva uncovered an iron smelting workshop at the site of ...

(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) A strange chunk of metal that lay hidden in the soil for thousands of years ...

The discovery of a 2,400-year-old metalworking workshop in Senegal provides new insights into the history of iron production ...

A 2,400-year-old workshop site in Senegal reveals how early metallurgy developed in sub-Saharan Africa, offering insight into ...

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.

This is the moment the series leaves the Bronze Age behind. He explains why iron replaced bronze—iron ore is everywhere while tin trade can collapse—then traces where iron ore deposits came from (the ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

Describes the process of the smelting of iron in a clay furnace in the village of Dablo, in northern Burkina Faso, Africa. Discusses the history of smelting iron in West Africa as well as the tools ...