Science, Maths & Technology
Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
...communities. If the meteorite iron was recognised to have arrived from the sky, a place of gods, this would have given it even more value and perhaps further enhance the status of its owner. We do not yet fully understand what ancient Egyptians thought of iron prior to its use becoming common, but there are other known relatively early Egyptian iron artefacts from well...