New evidence reveals that Tamil Nadu may have skipped the Copper Age, directly advancing to iron smelting. Archaeological findings challenge traditional history, suggesting an early Iron Age ...

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 discovery of a new class of high-temperature superconductors based on iron tests the limits of current theoretical and computational tools for the understanding of strongly correlated systems.

The recent archaeological revelations from Sivagalai in Tamil Nadu have sent ripples across historical and scientific communities. With definitive evidence of i ...

From forging iron to collecting water, feeding animals to grinding corn, Iron Age Britons were mostly occupied by many relentless tasks each day. However evidence of brightly coloured clothing and ...

Tamil Nadu Iron Age: Turkey was widely believed to be the first region in the world where iron was smelted and used, however a recent archeological discovery in Tamil Nadu has reignited the debate ...

For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient past. Their digs have uncovered early scripts that rewrite literacy ...

The iron from this planet used in the smelting was likely traded to this ... which is hardly possible with the tools of the Iron Age,” Jambon told Phys.com. “If you go hunting after a fall ...

The unearthing of an iron smelting furnace at Kodumanal also lends ... How does this change our understanding of the Iron Age? Though iron artifacts have been unearthed at 27 locations in eight ...