Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...

The Baltinglass hillfort cluster, sometimes referred to as "Ireland's Hillfort Capital," has long fascinated archaeologists with its exceptional concentration of prehistoric monuments. According to ...

Three thousand years ago, a group of metalworkers in what is now southern Georgia were trying to solve a problem. Their copper ores were messy, clogged with silica that turned to sticky glass in the ...