Far Out: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Came from Outer Space

Ancient Egyptian beads found in a 5,000-year-old tomb were made from iron meteorites that fell to Earth from space, according to a new study. The oldest iron artifacts, the beads predate the emergence of iron smelting by two millennia.



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