In the late 1920s, a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan, near the border with Iraq. They dated from the Iron Age and demonstrated how ...

Iran is known for weapons made during the Iron Age, which lasted from around 1250 to 550 B.C.E. After a trove of bronze and iron artifacts was discovered in Iran’s western province of Luristan ...

This story appears in the April 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Romans had a serious trash problem, though by our standards it was good-looking trash. Their problem was amphorae ...