Study lead author Albert Jambon, an archaeometallurgist and professor emeritus at Sorbonne University in Paris, said the ...

New research has revealed artifacts recovered from ancient Polish burial sites included pieces forged from rare extraterrestrial iron.

New research has revealed artifacts recovered from ancient Polish burial sites included pieces forged from rare extraterrestrial iron.

Archaeologists in Poland uncovered 26 iron objects made from a single meteorite. The artifacts, discovered during excavations at two early Iron Age cemeteries—Częstochowa-Raków and ...

The high nickel content in the iron indicated that the jewellery was crafted from an 'out of this world' metal.

THE effect known as the Widmanstatten structure is shown most clearly in those meteoric nickel-iron alloys in which the percentage of nickel lies between certain limits, roughly, from 7 to 14.

And the results shocked them. The experts observed high concentrations of smelted ore and meteoric iron that appeared to have come from a single space rock. The discovery was made in Poland's ...