A new study says Iron Age began hundreds of years earlier – in Tamil Nadu. Why this is important
Globally, the Iron Age has long been attributed to the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, where iron technology is believed to have ...
The urn that kept a 5,000-year secret
Chennai: In the summer of 2022, a team from Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology unearthed 160 burial urns at Sivagalai ...
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Ancient DNA from graves reveals "jaw-dropping" discovery about Iron Age women in U.K., scientists say
Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ...
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Ancient Artifacts from Meteorite Iron Reveal Secrets of Early Metallurgy
which needs to be treated to extract the iron. Without the invention of this process, called smelting, Bronze Age peoples ...
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Archaeologists Astonished to Uncover Hundreds of Iron Age Weapons, Rare Armor in Denmark
Archaeologists in Denmark were astonished to uncover a massive cache of Iron Age weapons in Denmark at an “infrastructure sight” in the town of Hedensted, Ancient Origins reported. The find ...
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Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women
A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is believed to be the first ...