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Not uncommon in ancient times. Meteoric steel was discussed in “The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention.” I hadn’t heard of this before reading the book recently.
Wiki...Before the advent of iron smelting, meteoric iron was the only source of iron metal apart from minor amounts of telluric iron. Meteoric iron was already used before the beginning of the iron age to make cultural objects, tools and weapons.
A blade made of meteorite is less impressive to me than the butt of that handle being made of plastic.
Incredibly beautiful craftsmanship. Thanks.
He gave his life for tourism.
The iron work is good but the gold work is faaantastic!
(we stood in line for 7 hours in New Orleans to see the Tut treasures)
Looking at this finding logically, shouldn’t certain religious groups be praying in the direction of this knife five times a day?
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-01/hundreds-roman-writing-tablets-reveal-early-london-life
Keyboard issue, too tired to fix it tonight, too lazy to fight it and post a new thread today, and too absent-minded to remember this story tomorrow.
Wax writing tablets dated January 8, 57 AD?