Iron in Egyptian relics came from space

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Iron in Egyptian relics came from space

Meteorite impacts thousands of years ago may have helped
to inspire ancient religion.

By Jo Marchant
Nature
May 29, 2013

The Gerzeh bead (top) has nickel-rich areas, coloured
blue on a virtual model (bottom), that indicate a
meteoritic origin.

Open Univ./Univ. Manchester

The 5,000-year-old iron bead might not look like much,
but it hides a spectacular past: researchers have found
that an ancient Egyptian trinket is made from a
meteorite.

The result, published on 20 May in Meteoritics &
Planetary Science1, explains how ancient Egyptians
obtained iron millennia before the earliest evidence of
iron smelting in the region, solving an enduring mystery.
It also hints that they regarded meteorites highly as
they began to develop their religion.

“The sky was very important to the ancient Egyptians,”
says Joyce Tyldesley, an Egyptologist at the University
of Manchester, UK, and a co-author of the paper.
“Something that falls from the sky is going to be
considered as a gift from the gods.”

The tube-shaped bead is one of nine found in 1911 in a
cemetery at Gerzeh, around 70 kilometres south of Cairo.
The cache dates from about 3,300 bc, making the beads the
oldest known iron artefacts from Egypt.

A study in 1928 found that the iron in the beads had a
high nickel content — a signature of iron meteorites —
and led to the suggestion that it was of celestial
origin2. But scholars argued in the 1980s that accidental
early smelting could have led to nickel-enriched iron3,
and a more recent analysis of oxidized material on the
surface of the beads showed low nickel content4.

Continues at:

http://www.nature.com/news/iron-in-egyptian-relics-came-from-space-1.13091

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

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In article <n811r8t16n58d80au...@4ax.com>,
Mirror of TRVTH wrote:

> use...@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai

> Maharaj) wrote:
>
> > The result, published on 20 May in Meteoritics &
> > Planetary Science1, explains how ancient Egyptians
> > obtained iron millennia before the earliest evidence of
> > iron smelting in the region, solving an enduring mystery.
>

> Naturally, since they had never seen iron before.

>
> > It also hints that they regarded meteorites highly as
> > they began to develop their religion.
> >
> > �The sky was very important to the ancient Egyptians,�
> > says Joyce Tyldesley, an Egyptologist at the University
> > of Manchester, UK, and a co-author of the paper.
> > �Something that falls from the sky is going to be

> > considered as a gift from the gods.�
>
> Oh, bullshit. They probably had no clue that it came from
> the sky. They found the meteorite long after it fell and
> went "wow, what's this shiny stuff!"
>
> Nothing to see here, just more Jay Stevens rants about more
> clueless arabs.

I can only add to pooh pooh, such publication. They are most likely
produce by the publish or perish environment in academia.

I remember reading stories as a kid about Robert Peary cheating eskimos
out of a multi-ton meteorite they were using for making knives. He did
that by offering them many manufactured knives. Why would anyone assume
similar things were not done with found iron before that?

--

Sam

Conservatives are against Darwinism but for natural selection.
Liberals are for Darwinism but totally against any selection.