Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

Research into iron production and its archaeological footprint offers valuable insights into both ancient technological innovations and their cultural contexts. The study of iron smelting processes, ...

At the Xiacaopu iron production site in Qingyang village, Anxi, East China's Fujian Province, a well-preserved smelting furnace workshop, along with several furnaces and tuyere pits have been ...

This ancient Egyptian iron bead dates back to roughly 3300 BC. Photo: The Open University / The University of Manchester To the ancient Egyptians, iron was known as the “metal of heaven,” says the ...

Activities and tools connected with iron almost everywhere seem to be symbolically loaded. On one hand there seems to be striking cross-cultural similarities in symbolism constructed around the ...

PERTH, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Australia’s two largest iron ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location to develop Australia’s ...

IT may be considered singularly fortunate and appropriate that the forthcoming meeting of the British Association in Glasgow exactly coincides with the centenary of James Beaumont Neilson's ...

Midrex Technologies Inc., Charlotte, N.C., has signed an agreement with steelmaker Kobe Steel and equipment maker Techint Technologies to jointly market and supply the Fastmet ® and Fastmelt ® ...

Recorded in May 2005 in the Mossi village of Dabo, in northern Burkina Faso, the above video produced by the late Christopher Roy (1947-2019) documents the traditional way of smelting iron. We witness ...

KABUL, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- A total of 45 major iron-smelting plants are operational in Afghanistan, with over 500 million U.S. dollars invested in the sector, achieving full self-sufficiency, the ...