Iron Age

Canine remains discovered in Bulgaria show dog meat may have been Iron Age delicacy - study

The Greeks, as well as the Thracians, who lived in what is now modern-day Bulgaria, are believed by researchers to have consumed dog meat. 

Dog skull found during an archaeological excavation.
The Civil Administration seizes dozens of archaeological artifacts from the Burj Lasana site north of Ramallah in the West Bank, December 4, 2025.

Civil Administration recovers dozens of looted artifacts from West Bank site

Celtic teenager buried face down in Dorset pit may reveal Iron Age human sacrifice.

Celtic teenager buried face down in Dorset pit may reveal Iron Age human sacrifice

A three-camera stereoscopic imaging kit is used to create accurate 3D models of underwater artifacts.

Sunken secrets: earliest iron-age cargoes in Israel’s Tantura lagoon


Microscopic Clues Rewrite History of Bronze Production in the Biblical Highlands

Analysis of 3,000-year-old smelting droplets shows copper from Timna and Feinan was alloyed with tin at a mountain site in Samaria, revealing a budding regional trade and technology network.

The El Ahwat archeological site in northern Samaria.

Oldest known use of harmal as incense discovered at Iron Age site in Saudi Arabia

Advanced metabolic profiling techniques revealed organic residues of harmal in Iron Age fumigation devices.

 Dried harmal seeds.

Banana traces in 3,000-years-olf Philistine teeth rewrite Iron Age trade map

Banana remnants in 3,000-year-old graves at Tel ‘Erani show the fruit reached the Judean coast by 1000 BCE, reshaping views on Iron Age trade and Philistine burial customs.

 Banana traces in 3,000-years-olf Philistine teeth rewrite Iron Age trade map. Illustration.

Miniature black juglets reveal Iron Age burial practice in Jerusalem cemetery

Israel Antiquities Authority paper records 49 black-fired vessels in a single Mamilla tomb and tracks their decline across the late eighth to early sixth centuries BCE.

 Miniature black juglets reveal Iron Age burial practice in Jerusalem cemetery.

Seeds, 3-D scans and Iron-Age artefacts deepen case for Holy Sepulchre’s biblical garden

Fresh finds beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre add hard evidence of a first-century garden and the site’s earlier life as a quarry.

 Seeds, 3-D scans and Iron-Age artefacts deepen case for Holy Sepulchre’s biblical garden.

3,000-year-old necropolis discovered in Al Ain, UAE

"The burial traditions of the Iron Age have always been a mystery to us," said Jaber Saleh Al Marri, Director of the Historical Environment Department at DCT Abu Dhabi.

 3,000-year-old necropolis discovered in Al Ain, UAE.

A rise in exotic goods: When Jeruslaem was an Assyrian Vassal

A Oxford Journal of Archaeology publication by Reli Avisar examines how vassal kingdoms, elite consumption, and imported luxury goods shaped Iron Age Lachish and Jerusalem.

 Southern wall of the Temple Mount. Archaeological Park in the old city of Jerusalem.

What a bearded faience head reveals about elite identity in Iron Age Israel

Analysis of a rare statuette from Tel Abel Beth Maacah suggests it portrayed a royal or elite figure, likely used as a cultic votive.

 What a bearded faience head reveals about elite identity in Iron Age Israel.

Iberians buried Iron-age unborn fetuses, young babies with care, intimacy

study finds infants were buried in homes as part of family rituals, reflecting intimate Iberian practices.

 New study shows Iberians buried infants under homes to honor them. The remains found.

Ornate spears found in Iron Age hoard near Melsonby, North Yorkshire

Experts say the find challenges the belief that Iron Age wealth was limited to southern Britain.

 Ornate spears found in exceptional Iron Age hoard near Melsonby, North Yorkshire.