The Tamil Nadu discovery challenges the origins of Iron Age, and suggests that it may have begun at least a thousand years ...

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 ...

It is said that ironmaking thrived across the Hittite Empire about 3,400 years ago. But the team's findings suggest people in the Bronze Age, before the Iron Age, were already trying to make iron ...

iron from the Hittites was highly sought after by Assyrian kings. Since extracting metallic iron from ores (smelting) is more complex than extracting copper, the Iron Age followed the advent of copper ...

they seem to have capitalized on the dual collapse of the Egyptian and Hittite empires by the end of the 2nd millenary BCE, during the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. The Bible ...

Ironmaking is believed to have thrived across the Hittite Empire about 3,400 years ago. But the latest findings suggest that people in the Bronze Age, before the Iron Age, were already trying to make ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin proclaimed that the iron age began on “Tamil soil”, placing the date 5,300-odd years ago (4th millennium BCE), and that the “history of Indian ...