Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The site, shown here, was originally excavated during the Soviet period and was relocated using hand draw maps from a 1964 book.

Sparkly hematite mineral was used as a flux by copper smelters. Its distinctive appearance may have helped to attract attention from ancient miners and prospectors. However, instead of iron, the ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that furnace is the charcoal fire of ...

The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how we left the Bronze Age behind – via a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Crystal City will spend $2.2 million to purchase the site of a shuttered glass plant with the intention of leasing the property ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. It was a scene familiar to anyone paying attention to Crystal City government in the last 18 months. A capacity crowd at Crystal ...