It wasn’t as unbelievable as it might seem. In fact, the oldest known iron artifacts, a set of 5,000-year-old beads from northern Egypt, also came from meteoric iron. Iron is almost always found ...

Iron Age amber beads from the Baltic Sea found in Syria. Credit: M. N. Mortensen et al. / National Museum of Denmark A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has ...