There are plenty of valuable crafting materials for players to collect in V Rising, including various metals. One of the most valuable metals players should get as early as possible is iron ore, which ...

Scientists confirm a Bronze Age iron artifact from Sanxingdui was made from extraterrestrial material, revealing ancient ...

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 ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

Turning rock into metal is one of the oldest crafts in human history. Watch the process of smelting iron ore and forging a ...

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 ...

In the South Atlantic, stretching from Chile to South Africa, there’s a wide span where the Earth’s magnetic field isn’t quite in line with the rest. Here, at what’s called the South Atlantic Anomaly, ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have demonstrated a more eco-friendly way to make iron. The method eliminates greenhouse gases typical of conventional iron production methods says team ...