Invented civilizations are usually thought of as the stuff of sci-fi novels and video games, not museums.Yet in 1972, the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University exhibited “The ...

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife stuck into her burial. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The grave held a sword, usually buried with men, as well as a mirror, usually buried with women. Historic England Archive. In 1999, a farmer stumbled upon an Iron Age grave on Bryher, a small ...

The belief had been that only Iron Age women were buried with mirrors, and only warrior men with swords but the body now identified as a woman owned both, in death and presumably in life.

Archaeology & History Archaeologists Believe That an Iron Age Comb Discovered Along a U.K. Highway Was Made From a Human Skull. The tool, which may have been worn as an amulet, is evidence of a ...

A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. CNN values your feedback 1.