The accidental discovery that forged the Iron Age

ScienceDaily
Sep 28, 2025, 9:45 am312 ptsTop
Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron but to improve copper yields. This experimentation shows how curiosity with materials could have sparked one of…

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