Bronze Age bigwigs in what’s now Denmark wore brightly colored glass beads made in the workshops of Egyptian pharaohs and Mesopotamian rulers, a new investigation finds. Trade routes connected Egypt ...

We can typically trace the production of iron from ore to an era fittingly called the Iron Age, roughly between 1300 and 700 BC. But archaeologists have found iron artifacts that predate the Iron Age.

Ancient Egyptian beads found in a 5,000-year-old tomb were made from iron meteorites that fell to Earth from space, according to a new study. The beads, which are the oldest known iron artifacts in ...

The earliest known iron beads may come from ancient Egyptian tombs, but they were forged from the hearts of meteorites, scientists say. The findings, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science ...

Blackened and corroded beads have turned out to be the oldest objects made in iron ever discovered, beaten out from pieces of meteorite in ancient Egypt more than 5,000 years ago. The nine beads were ...

"This book ... is based on the Ph. D dissertation written by Xianai when he studied in London University College, 70 years ago"--Foreword This book presents a ...

After a century of uncertainty, researchers have confirmed that the iron used to weld 5,000-year-old Egyptian beads fell from the sky—in the form of a meteorite, that is. The nine small beads were ...

Not content with managing the household it appears women in Ancient Egypt were also keeping the budget in the black with some home-based manufacturing. That is the conclusion an Australian team has ...

A teenage boy buried near the Hill of Tara 3,800 years ago wore a necklace of faience beads that Trinity College researchers confirmed matched Egyptian manufacturing techniques and design style ...

Iron beads from jewelry discovered a century ago in an ancient Egyptian grave came from pieces of meteorites that were hammered and heated into ornaments, two new studies find. Researchers say that ...

The earliest iron artifacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite, archaeologists said on Monday. Hi-tech scanning of the ...