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We’ve all heard of the Iron Age. And some of us know that this age is characterized by the production of weaponry through ironworking, aka metallurgy. At least in Europe and the Ancient Near East. But did you know that ironworking was developed in West Africa as many as 800 years before it came to Ancient Greece?
We’ve all heard of the Iron Age. And some of us know that this age is characterized by the production of weaponry through ironworking, aka metallurgy. At least in Europe and the Ancient Near East. But did you know that ironworking was developed in West Africa as many as 800 years before it came to Ancient Greece?