A sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress offers tantalizing clues about a culture that once dotted the southern Caucasus mountains with similar walled communities. Archaeologists recently used a drone to ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains. Digitally stitching together 11,000 images, they created a complete map of the ...

Three thousand years ago, a group of metalworkers in what is now southern Georgia were trying to solve a problem. Their copper ores were messy, clogged with silica that turned to sticky glass in the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered intriguing new insights into a Bronze Age "mega-fortress" that dates back to around 3,000 years ago. Researchers conducted a systematic ground and aerial survey of the ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...