[SunkenCiv]

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

[PeaceBeWithYou]

All Iron,(and everything else)originally came from space, and still is.

[The Antiyuppie]

Until iron could be made from iron ore, almost all iron metal on Earth was meteoric in origin, so this finding is not very surprising. In damp areas, it would not last very long, for obvious reasons. In drier areas (i.e., deserts), longer. It was probably MUCH rarer than gold, hence, very valuable.

Hard to believe, only 175 years ago, aluminum metal was worth more than gold.

[OldNavyVet]

From "Darwin's Ghost," a modern update on each and every chapter in Darwin's "Origin."

From the chapter titled "On the geographical Succcession of Organic Beings" (page 218) we have ...

"A trillion comets orbit the sun. The gravel that surrounds them appears, should it hit our atmosphere, as a shower of meteors. The Earth gains a ton in weight every hour from their dust. Two thousand asteroids big enough to destroy civilization orbit nearby."

[2001convSVT]

Thor’s Hammer was said to come from the heavens, maybe the Vikings worked iron meteorites to create it and other iron weapons..