Modern historians attributed the collapse to the Dorian Greek invaders whom the Egyptians called the Sea Peoples; a horde of them sailed into Egypt in ... of the early Iron Age took decades ...

In fact, the oldest known iron artifacts, a set of 5,000-year-old beads from northern Egypt, also came from meteoric ... called smelting, Bronze Age peoples couldn’t use the iron they found.

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 ...