Out of the fire, a creation. Holding a small, flat piece of iron with a tool resembling barbecue tongs in his right hand, Paul Molinaro shoved the piece in a pile of red-hot charcoal. After a few ...

GAYLORD — A rhythmic hammering is established as blacksmith George Magsig strikes and shapes the tip of a red hot steel bar on the anvil before returning it to the fiery forge for additional heating. ...

The Iron Age revolutionized Africa and forever altered human civilization practically and symbolically. Technologies of iron smelting and forging, which likely began on the African continent around ...

Archaeologists have been wowed by the early dates and the evidence, including the size of the tuyere An iron age workshop, where blacksmiths were forging metal about 2,700 years ago, has been ...

Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel atop an anvil inside his workshop at the New Agrarian School in Bigfork on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel ...

Thousands of years ago, a highly skilled blacksmith hammered away in a workshop, forging iron into swords, wheels or other complex objects. The “master blacksmith” is long gone but, as archaeologists ...

In this video, I share my journey into blacksmithing by building a simple propane forge using fire bricks and plumbing ...