A nice valentine for the Iranian despotate.
More evidence of time travelers going back and meddling in our affairs.
Interesting find. Not sure what the Iranian despots will do with it.
there was a post at one time at freerepublic that discussed stainless steel as being what made the famous saracen swords at once so flexible and strong.
That likely they were able to get the ingredients for it from the meteorites that fleck the deserts of saudi arabia.
that that is the reason that the worship stone at the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Mecca— is a meteorite. The extra terrestrial metals smelted into iron was the secret of their success!
Interesting idea. Not much proof.
The context of the story I believe is that moslems use American stainless steel to hold up meteorite stone at the Kaaba.
I think the way the ancient moslem swords were made was lost.
This story today does start to push back the history of stainless steel
“...swords and daggers.”
Religion of peace, way back then.
Must really be a real time-shifting capability to come to the present and reset to the alternate CE timeline before going back to the 11th century A.D.
(Regardless of what they want to call it, it's Anno Domini, not the "Common Era").
Did it rust like Chinese stainless steel?