Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin pushes back the antiquity of iron, placing the iron age at 5,300 years ago.

From the Bronze age to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, the discovery and development of new materials has been a ...

As the world makes the transition to renewable energy sources, the demand for efficient, long lasting batteries has grown and ...

The archaeological site of El Monastil is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its declaration as a Site of Cultural Interest ...

In ancient times, human civilisations experimented with natural resources to create tools and artifacts. The bronze age, in the mid-4th millennium BC, was a significant milestone. Bronze, an alloy of ...

It is well known that urbanisation started in Orient during the second half of the fourth millennium BC, and best examples were encountered in south Mesopotamia and Egypt. "Regarding Jordan, it has ...

3,100 BC. Some societal changes took place during that period ... a new subsistence economy emerged during the fourth millennium, which characterised the Mediterranean zone from this time onward . “It ...

The Sumerians invented the wheel in the fourth millennium BC in Lower Mesopotamia—present-day Iraq. In this invention, rotating axles were inserted into wooden solid discs. They began hollowing ...