Maiden Mummies From Ancient Chile Wore Toxic Clothing, Archaeologists Find. ByKristina ... the raw material used to create it was most often an iron oxide like hematite because it was easily found ...

Recreating clothes from the Iron Age Date: November 24, 2014 Source: University of Oslo Summary: A few years ago, the oldest known piece of clothing ever discovered in Norway, a tunic dating from ...

Over 500 Iron Age bog bodies and skeletons dating to between 800 B.C. and A.D. 200 have been discovered in Denmark alone, with more unearthed in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and ...

Misguided ancient Egyptians smoothed their clothes using heavy stones. The Chinese employed primitive hot irons ... The electric iron was patented in the United States on a dark day in 1882.

Well-preserved public baths, with a changing room and iron window bars, were discovered in Merida, which was formerly a Roman town.

The Iron Age. The period known as the Iron Age lasted in Britain for about 800 years (from c.750 BC to AD 43). The changes and technological innovations that occurred during this time were every ...

Iron tools and the way they were made changed little from the early Iron Age to the early 20th-century, when the Industrial Revolution changed nearly everything.

Ancient Homo sapiens about 40,000 years ago may have even benefited from some of the same technologies that we use to avoid sunburns today–mineral sunscreen, tailored clothes, and using caves ...

Well-preserved public baths, with a changing room and iron window bars, were discovered in Merida, which was formerly a Roman town.