A recent study by Dr. Albert Jambon and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, revealed the presence of meteoric iron in Early Iron Age ornaments in Poland.

KABUL, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- An iron-smelting plant worth 200 million U.S. dollars will be opened in Maidan Shar city, the capital of eastern Afghanistan's Wardak province, the state-owned Bakhtar ...

Over three days and three nights, smelters using ancient techniques shovel roughly 25 tons of iron-bearing river sand and charcoal into the mouth of a tatara, a rectangular clay furnace built ...

It's not clear how the Bantu gained their skills in iron working. The great smelting tradition of the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe (around 500 BC) did not spread either further west or towards the ...