Ancient statue discovered by Nazis is made from (Chinga) meteorite

BBC News ^ | 9/27/12 | Matt McGrath - BBC

[NormsRevenge]

[NormsRevenge]

“It is rich in nickel, it is rich in cobalt. Less than 0.1% of all meteorites and less than 1% of iron meteorites are ataxites, so it is the rarest type of meteorites you can find.”

[verum ago]

This seems like the back story to a rejected Indiana Jones script.

[NormsRevenge]

Tibet was the place to be back then, not too far from Shangri-La and Burma on a slow week-end.

[nickcarraway]

I was thinking the same thing.

[NormsRevenge]

‘Iron Man’ ping

[Boogieman]

What a waste. In more sensible places and times, they would have used that meteoric iron to make some very fine swords, not a useless idol.

[Slyfox]

The meteorite at mecca:

[faucetman]

Jump to conclusions much? You know what, if you find ONE of something.... keep looking you'll find another, and another.

Maybe it's made from a piece of the planet Orpheus? (sarc)

[Secret Agent Man]

Coincidentally named “The Iron Vagina.”

[a fool in paradise]

[winodog]

It would be cool if that thing chopped off a hand now and then. That would prove you were a sinner and they could take you outback and stone you.

[gop4lyf]

Is that what the hajis throw rocks at?

[davisfh]

Love this guy’s hairdo and his phony accent.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

That fagola Nazi has a ring in his RIGHT ear! (Right is Wrong).

[Sirius Lee]

The sand savages smooch sphincter, that’s for sure.

[Smokin' Joe]

So, either the image has been reversed, or that just isn’t a Nazi swastika. (It’s backwards).

[Repeat Offender]

In the 11th century, a man allegedly sent by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah attempted to smash the Black Stone, but was killed on the spot, having caused only slight damage. In 1674, according to Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, someone smeared the Black Stone with excrement so that "every one who kissed it retired with a sullied beard". The Shi'ite Persians were suspected of being responsible and were the target of curses from other Muslims for centuries afterwards, though explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton doubted that they were the culprits; he attributed the act to "some Jew or Greek, who risked his life to gratify a furious bigotry.

from wiki

[DogByte6RER]

Sounds like the plot form an Indiana Jones movie ...

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