Isn’t the Earth in space now? :-)
I just want the flying car that ‘scientists’ and ‘mechanics’ said I would have by now!
Can you imagine wearing or wielding anything made of iron, as Tut did? That’s just cray-cray!
According to some theories, meteoric iron was freely available in many places on the Earth’s surface..........
Wish I could recall the source. It would provide an interesting interpretation of the kaaba in Mecca if true.
It all comes from space, the heavier elements from stellar processes:
Just as an aside: what if actual iron smelting started as a scam to sell fake magical weapons / implements?
The markup could have initially been outrageous, even more than it just being iron (which would initially be rare and expensive enough).
Might make for an interesting short story.
It might have started in space but now it’s from China...
Everything on Earth came from somewhere. Ask God.
All Bronze Age Iron Came From UFO`s from Space, New Study Shows
there fixed it
Explains a lot of the sky worship ... though gifts of superior metal from the heavens might inspire the worship.
Homer writes about a dispute Odysses resolved.
Two Myrmidons were arguing over an iron spear point.
Both claimed King Agammemnon gave them the ore and forge. and told them to deal with data disribution.
Odysses wisely ruled, “ Whoever smelt it, dealt it.”
This story leaves out “bog iron” a form of iron produced by bacteria in peat bogs, swamps and other marshy places with a naturally occurring source of iron. You could and can find it in small nodules up to golf ball size. Did not need to be smelted just melted. Secret weapon of the Vikings. Had a high Silica content (glass) content so nails made from it did not corrode so bad once the outer iron layer went away. Bring your longship upon to the beach burn it recover nails cut new timber and build new ship. Worked for them maybe thousand years.
• There has been a controversy about the origin of Bronze Age irons that could be either meteoritic or smelted irons.
• A geochemical approach using Fe:Co:Ni analyses, permits to differentiate terrestrial from extraterrestrial irons.
• Meteoritic irons, Bronze Age iron artifacts, ancient terrestrial irons and lateritic ores enable to validate this approach.
• Modern irons and iron ores are shown to exhibit a different relationship in a Fe:Co:Ni array.
• Iron from the Bronze Age are meteoritic, invalidating speculations about precocious smelting during the Bronze Age
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440317301322