Collectors and museums began widely acquiring Iranian weaponry from the Iron Age after they ... Yet several swords seized at ...

This sword was probably owned by an Iron Age Chieftain and was deposited as ... specifically stated are not those of the BBC or the British Museum. The BBC is not responsible for the content ...

Iron working was a common element of everyday life in Iron Age Britain. By 500 BC iron had replaced bronze as the usual metal for making tools and weapons. Blacksmiths produced iron using charcoal ...

Originating in the later Bronze Age (1000 BC - 800 BC), the hill forts of the early Iron Age are found over a wide area of the British Isles: in Scotland (Finavon Fort in Angus), Wales (The ...

The British Museum conducted analysis using ... The demand for Iranian Iron Age weapons began after a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of ...

The Trustees of the British Museum The Iron Age people used resources, skills, labour and playfulness to create astonishing pieces of gold work, said Dr Farley ...

Early Iron Age Iranian bladed weaponry ... of complex metallurgy." The swords, part of a larger trafficked collection, will ...