AN ANCIENT sword engraved with swastikas and forged long before Jesus walked the Earth has been discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis. Uncovered intact in France after 2,300 years ...

The sword was found at a strange second Iron Age burial site, lacking any skeletons due to the acidity of the soil. However, researchers uncovered several metal artefacts at the site, including ...

At the top of the archaeological site of Creuzier-le-Neuf, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, a team from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) has uncovered an ...

That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back about 2,000 years. Found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire ...

Credit: Paramatamil / CC BY-SA 4.0 A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in southern India has reignited debate over the origins of the Iron Age, challenging long-held ... chisels, axes and swords ...

Long before Rome, before China's Iron Age, Tamil Nadu was already forging some of the world's finest swords. New archaeological discoveries reveal that South India's iron technology dates back ...

this was the case only during the end of the Iron Age, the Persian and Hellenistic periods. This change of economy and settlement patterns may be attributed to the political instability resulted from ...

The Iron Age in India has been a subject of fascination and discussion. In the rest of the world, the Iron Age succeeded the Copper-Bronze Age or bridged the gap between the Bronze Age and the ...

Beyond archeological evidence, a great deal of what we know about Iron Age Britain largely comes from Roman and Greek writers and not from conquered British or Celtic sources. “Their commentary ...

Greek and Roman writers described powerful female political leaders in Iron Age England, including two Celtic queens. Prestigious ornaments and other items placed in the graves of western European ...