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 ...

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

New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...

Iron working was a common element of everyday life in Iron Age Britain. By 500 BC iron had replaced bronze as the usual metal for making tools and weapons. Blacksmiths produced iron using charcoal ...

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 ...

Till now, it is believed that the Iron Age began in the Middle East and South-eastern Europe around 1,200 BCE – that is ...