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Earliest known iron artifacts come from outer space


Earliest known iron artefacts come from outer space | UCL News

Researchers have shown that ancient Egyptian iron beads held at the UCL Petrie Museum were hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather than iron ore.

Earliest known iron artefacts come from outer space

Researchers have shown that ancient Egyptian iron beads excavated in 1911 were hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather…

Iron in Egyptian Relics Came from Space | Scientific American

The cache dates from about 3,300 bc, making the beads the oldest known iron artifacts from Egypt. A study in 1928 found that the iron in the ...

Some of world's earliest iron artifacts came from outer space - UPI

Some of the world's earliest known iron artifacts -- ancient Egyptian beads -- came from outer space and were hammered out of meteorites, ...

Photos: Oldest Iron Objects Came from Outer Space | Live Science

A new study of many of the oldest iron objects ever found has discovered that they are all made with metal from meteorites.

Ancient Artifacts from Meteorite Iron Reveal Secrets of Early Metallurgy

In fact, the oldest known iron artifacts, a set of 5,000-year-old beads from northern Egypt, also came from meteoric iron. Iron is almost always ...

Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came From Space - Atlas Obscura

New research is showing just how coveted meteoritic iron was in the Bronze Age. ... A depiction of a meteoric event from the Augsburger ...

Bronze Age artifacts used meteoric iron - Phys.org

The Iron Age began in Anatolia and the Caucasus around 1200 BCE. But nearly 2,000 years earlier, various cultures were already fashioning ...

All Bronze Age Iron Came From Space, New Study Shows

It was just extremely rare. Most famously, the pharaoh Tutankhamun had a headrest, bracelet and dagger made of iron. Other iron artifacts from ...

ScienceShot: Iron From the Sky | Science

Dating to around 3300 B.C.E., the tube-shaped ornaments (pictured) are the oldest known iron artifacts in Egypt. In fact, this jewelry greatly ...

Egyptian artefacts came from outer space › News in Science ... - ABC

Some of the earliest iron artefacts ever found came from a meteorite, archaeologists have confirmed.

Ancient Egyptian Artifact Built From Iron from Outer Space

This particular iron, though, did not originate on this planet. Researchers recently concluded that beads in an Egyptian necklace from 3200 BC held at London's ...

Oldest Egyptian iron artefacts made from meteorites - YouTube

... iron ore. The objects, which trace their origins to outer space, also predate the emergence of iron smelting by two millennia. Further info ...

How did Ancient Egyptians know that iron comes from outer space?

100% of their iron came from meteors, that's why they call it metal from the heavens. Also, due to it truly being the most rare substances in their era, it was ...

How did ancient cultures first discover iron? It fell from the sky.

Within the past decade, studies of artifacts have confirmed that some civilizations used iron from meteorites to craft objects before smelted ...

Ancient Egyptian Iron Beads Got Their Start in Outer Space - VICE

So how did iron beads come to exist centuries before iron became a prevalent metal? A new study found evidence that the iron that made these ...

Did Ancient Egyptians Know Meteorites Came From Space?

Yet iron objects appear much earlier than that in Egypt. In fact, the world's oldest-identified iron objects are small beads that come from ...

Earliest iron artifacts made from meteorite: archaeologists

The earliest iron artifacts ever found - funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5 000-year-old Egyptian cemetery - were made from a meteorite, archaeologists ...

King Tut's Meteorite Dagger: It Came From Outer Space

The iron dagger was found, according to History.com, next to the mummy of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen — better known today as King Tut. Along ...

Offworld Metallurgy – BLDGBLOG

X-ray analysis has found that “ancient Egyptian iron beads held at the UCL Petrie Museum were hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather than iron ore,” ...