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The rise of the Iron Age—and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And according to new research, a copper smelting site used roughly 3,000 years ago in ...

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Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban was a proponent of wrought iron being used as an “art form,” and used it on his public and private buildings. Decorative uses of wrought iron include hand-wrought ...

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Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age as the refining process of iron was discovered.