Aug 27, 2026 | Archaeology & History
There is a hole in the ground outside Thornton, in West Yorkshire, and what is interesting about it is mostly what is not there. The hole is the bottom of an iron-smelting furnace from the Late Iron Age, about 2,400 years old, dug in advance of a construction project...
Aug 8, 2026 | Access & Archives
If you were a Mycenaean nobleman around 1500 BC and you wanted the most expensive ring on the Aegean, you would not have asked for gold. You would have asked for what was, materially, rarer: a ring whose iron had been beaten out of a meteorite. A team led by Eleni...
