As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in collections around the world are iron-rich – these are rare and rather special beasts. They are thought to ...

In southern Poland, iron objects made from a single meteorite were uncovered by archaeologists. The artifacts were discovered during excavations at two early Iron Age cemeteries, Częstochowa ...

In a recent paper, researchers at Spain's National Archeological Museum discovered that the objects were forged from meteoric iron. The Treasure of Villena, discovered in the Valencia region of ...

A Japanese research team has concluded that an iron dagger made of meteorites found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was forged at temperatures of about 950 degrees or lower.

Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

As early as 3,000 BC in Egypt, people found iron-rich rocks scattered across the dry landscape and realised they were different. The ancient Egyptians used these meteorites to create high status ...

One of these sits in the Treasures gallery. This 635-kilogramme iron meteorite was once part of a larger meteorite that fell in Campo del Cielo (named by the Spanish and translates as 'Field of Heaven ...