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Major Iron Age treasure trove on public display for first time in Yorkshire

York Press 12 Feb 2026
A major Iron Age treasure trove will go on public display for the first time at the Yorkshire Museum from May ... .
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Scientists uncover Iron Age origins of Vietnamese tooth blackening practices

Phys Dot Org 12 Feb 2026
... and a recent discovery hints that the roots of this practice may stretch all the way back to the Iron Age.
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History professor strikes gold with remarkable Iron Age discovery (University of East Anglia)

Public Technologies 12 Feb 2026
) History professor strikes gold with remarkable Iron Age discovery ... Prof Tom Licence with the Iron Age gold coins he found whilst metal-detecting in Suffolk in 2024 ... Iron Age torcs from Snettisham.
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Severed head rituals were more widespread in Iron Age Iberia than we thought

Popular Science 09 Feb 2026
Archaeologists have spent years puzzling over evidence of severed head rituals among Iron Age communities in the northeast Iberian Peninsula ... techniques such as driving iron nails through the skulls.
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Iron Age Phoenician Scarab Seal Discovered in a Remote Sardinian Settlement

Greek Reporter 06 Feb 2026
The finely carved Phoenician scarab seal discovered at the Nuragic site of Ruinas in Sardinia ... The object is dated to the Iron Age and likely originated in the region of modern-day Lebanon, centuries after the construction of the nuraghe itself ... ....
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Canine remains discovered in Bulgaria show dog meat may have been Iron Age delicacy - study

The Jerusalem Post 05 Feb 2026
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.� ....
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India’s Longest Iron Age Spear: 8-Foot Weapon Found in Tamil Nadu Burial

Greek Reporter 29 Jan 2026
Archaeologists in Tamil Nadu have uncovered India’s longest known Iron ... Iron Age specialist Vibha Tripathi of Banaras Hindu University said the burial fits a broader pattern seen across Iron Age sites.
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India’s longest Iron Age spear unearthed in Tamil Nadu; 8ft & 6.5ft-long found

The Times of India 27 Jan 2026
... with him.After getting the oldest Iron Age date (3,345 BCE) from Sivagalai in Tuticorin, archaeologists from Tamil Nadu have unearthed an 8ft long iron spear from Thirumalapuram, about 80km away.
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Iron Age Religious Complex Uncovered in Northern Spain

Greek Reporter 27 Jan 2026
Archaeologists working in northern Spain have uncovered what they describe as an exceptional late Iron Age religious complex, shedding rare light on ritual life in the centuries before Roman rule on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Recreation of Iron Age Glenfield cauldron nominated as Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year (University of Leicester)

Public Technologies 19 Jan 2026
) Recreation of Iron Age Glenfield cauldron nominated as Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year ... The collaborative investigation and recreation of an Iron Age cauldron found in Glenfield has ...
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