Analysis of Iron Age artifacts from Poland confirms the use of meteoric iron, revealing insights into early metallurgy.

To reach this conclusion, the team studied iron meteorites, which are remnants of the metallic cores of some of the first planetary building blocks in our solar system. Their findings showed that ...

Dipartimento di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P. Giuria 7, I-10125 Torino, Italy ...

Postdoctoral Fellow Peng Ni received his B.S. from Peking University and his Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the University of Michigan. He is an experimental geochemist who seeks to understand the ...

The event’s largest pavilion presented by the host country comprises 560 wooden planks for the interior and exterior walls, and a meteorite from Mars will be displayed there. The pavilion will also ...

As any blacksmith or steelmaker knows, it’s best to strike while the iron is hot. Hedge fund Ancora said on Jan. 27 that it has taken a stake in United States Steel, is urging the company to ...

Here, a circular furnace base measuring 115 cm in diameter was found at a depth of 65 cm, directly on natural soil. This discovery included iron slag, burnt clay embedded with slag, a tuyere piece ...

In an announcement that challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of the Iron Age, a new study has found evidence that the use of iron in the area that is now Tamil Nadu dates back to the ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that Tamil Nadu's Iron Age began as early as 3,345 BCE, predating the Hittite Empire's iron usage by a millennium. Radiometric dating of burial urn samples from ...