Ancient copper smelters in Georgia may have accidentally paved the way for the Iron Age, providing new insights into human ...

New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...

U.S. Steel’s notoriously outdated Edgar Thomson Works handles the molten substance left behind by smelting iron ore the same ...

The dig site was originally analyzed in the 1950s, when archeologists found an iron oxide mineral called hematite and a waste ...

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late ...

The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age—a period that redefined the course of human civilization through the widespread use of an abundant and durable metal—finds one of its key explanatory ...

A decarbonised steel industry that includes carbon dioxide removal techniques in its net zero arsenal could use lower-grade iron ore, according to a new study. Steel accounts for 5-8% of carbon ...