In the past few decades, humans around the world have made a lot of effort toward being more environmentally friendly.

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 ...

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

Lead as a byproduct of human activity first emerges in the archaeological record at around the time we started to produce silver via smelting and refining of lead ores around 5,000 years ago. It ...

Of all the various ancient tools that the research team found, the tuyere captured Prof Mokhtar’s attention the most. Tuyere an important component for iron smelting.