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Follow on Google News | Ancient Egyptians wore jewellery made from meteorites: ScientistsJewellery also helps us to know how our ancient was.Scientist researching to understand the meteorits .
By: Jewelsnext Media Pvt Ltd Dating from 3350 to 3600 BC, thousands of years before Egypt's Iron Age, the bead analysed was originally assumed to be from a meteorite owing to its composition of nickel-rich iron.However, this hypothesis was challenged in the 1980s when academics proposed that much of the early worldwide examples of iron use originally thought to be of meteorite-origin were actually early smelting attempts. Subsequently, the Gerzeh bead, still the earliest discovered use of iron by the Egyptians, was loaned by The Manchester Museum to the The Open University (OU) and Manchester's School of Materials for further testing.[http://www.jewelsnext.com/ "This research highlights the application of modern technology to ancient materials not only to understand meteorites better but also to help us understand what ancient cultures considered these materials to be and the importance they placed upon them," Diane Johnson, who led the study, said. Meteorite iron had profound implications for the Ancient Egyptians, both in their perception of the iron in the context of its celestial origin and in early metallurgy attempts."Today, we see iron first and foremost as a practical, rather dull metal. To the ancient Egyptians, however, it was a rare and beautiful material which, as it fell from the sky, "Meteorites have a unique microstructural and chemical fingerprint because they cooled incredibly slowly as they travelled through space. It was really interesting to find that fingerprint turn up in Egyptian artefacts," Philip Withers, Professor of Materials Science at The University of Manchester, added. surely had some magical/religious properties," "They therefore used this remarkable metal to create small objects of beauty and religious significance which were so important to them that they chose to include them in their graves," said Tyldesley. End
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