When National Geographic Magazine sent me on assignment to reconstruct ancient Etruscan iron smelting. I traveled to Populonia, Italy along with archaeologists to check out the actual location.
Today the site is an ordinary tourist beach, but it was a once a gritty industrial scene choked with smoke and slag.
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