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 ...

This was because the Ancient Romans pushed mining and smelting of metals like silver, gold, and lead itself, which lined Roman plumbing. Such activity not only leached lead into the environment ...

Traditionally, copper metallurgy is not thought to have emerged until millennia later, during the Chalcolithic period. Thus ...

and ancient clay furnaces designed for smelting gold to create a pure product—showed off the highly orchestrated nature of the mining operation. To make it all possible, gold miners eventually ...

The area was brimming with iron smelting activities, and the team of researchers has found physical evidence of this. One day, while sifting through some soil, the team unearthed an ancient ...