Radiocarbon dating of human remains found in 1936 revealed that victims were killed nearly a century before the Romans ...

A MASS grave of more than 50 skeletons has cast light on tribal warfare in Iron Age Britain, where gangs engaged in bloody ...

Radiocarbon dating of human remains dug up in 1936 at one of Europe's biggest hill forts has revealed the victims were killed ...

AD Roman life-size marble statue of important magistrate. Academic report by Dr. Raffaele D'Amato; geological report by ...

A man was recently having geothermal pipes installed on his property in the town of Salo, Finland, which required workers to ...

Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," and one is ...

At the top of the archaeological site of Creuzier-le-Neuf, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, a team from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) has uncovered an ...

axes and swords made of iron from different sites. The discovery challenges a long-standing agreement in archeological circles that the Iron Age began in the Hittite Empire of Anatolia ...

Early iron came in two types– meteoritic and smelted ... arrowheads, chisels, axes and swords. The Iron Age is long believed to have started in the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, where iron technology ...

A particularly striking find is an iron sword made of ultra-high-carbon steel ... If further research supports these early dates, the history of iron production—and perhaps the Iron Age itself—may ...

Many of the claims for very early iron in Africa are unproven because ... grain or millet found with iron within burial jars (urns). The calibrated age ranges for these are 1197-835 BCE, 1368-1110 BCE ...

The Iron Age was distinguished from the Early Historic period through artefacts such as punch ... kind of artefacts generally found from the Adichanallur urns, including long swords, anchor hooks, ...