During the Iron Age, between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago, a chieftain buried an arsenal of weapons sufficient to equip a small ...

What began as routine excavation turned into a remarkable find: an Iron Age weapons cache and a rare chainmail shirt. Also read Stone Age People Recycled Ancestors' Heads in Ceremonies ...

The demand for Iranian Iron Age weapons began after a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan in the late 1920s. This discovery triggered ...

The late Bronze Age was also signatured by advanced pottery-making techniques, and more sophisticated weapon-making. The Iron Age that followed it did not happen suddenly, but is thought to have ...