Archaeologists have discovered 'alien metal' in old funerals in Poland.
They discovered four artifacts, three bracelets and a pin, with a metallic iron found only in meteorites.
The pieces were drawn from two cemeteries in the early Iron Age, dating between 750 and 600 BC, in southern Poland.
The team used various techniques, including X -rays to puzen in objects and another who uses a radius electrons to make high resolution of objects, to determine the elementary composition of the artifacts.
The results showed high concentrations of melted ore and meteoric iron that seemed to come from a single spacious stone.
The high nickel levels in the iron suggested that the jewelry was made of an ataxite meteorite with a mirror -like finish.
The researchers also said that mixing the iron sources was probably deliberately done to make patterns on the pieces.
If the hypothesis can be proven, these artifacts would The oldest known version of iron with pattern.
Archaeologists identified four artifacts from old cemeteries with iron from a meteorite
The use of cases of meteorites for fashion objects was a usual practice thousands of years ago, because a similar artifact was found in the grave of Tutankhamun.
Meteorite iron is found in certain types of stony meteorites, mainly composed of silicates – a salt made of silicon and oxygen.
The discovery was made in the Częstochowa museum collection of Poland by Polish and French scientists who analyzed cemeteries of two early Iron Agegraeyards, Częstochowa-Raków and Częstochowa-Mirów.
Researchers analyzed the jewelry in the 1960s, but the artifacts were again analyzed by Professor Albert Jambon, a meteorite specialist from Sorbonne University and Dr. Karol Dzięgielewski from Jagiellonian University.
'This modest number of copies is nevertheless one of the largest collection of meteorite iron products on one archaeological site worldwide, they shared in the study.
The team studied a total of 26 artifacts, including bracelets, single rings, knives, spearheads and chains, housed in the museum.
With the help of various analytical techniques, they were able to determine the basic distribution and material composition of the artifacts, Phys.org reported.
This allowed them to identify four pieces that were at least partially composed of meteoric iron.
The pieces were drawn from two cemeteries in the early Iron Age, dating between 750 and 600 BC, in southern Poland
While only four of the artifacts contain meteoric iron, said investigations that the discovery is on the same footing with some from ancient Egypt where archaeologists received pieces of pieces that went back for 5000 years
The bracelets were drawn from Częstochowa-Raków Cemetery and the pin of Częstochowa-Mirów.
While only four of the artifacts contain meteoric iron, said research that the discovery is on the same footing with some from ancient Egypt where archaeologists have found pieces of 5000 years.
Because the type of meteorite used, the team believes that the iron has been produced locally.
“We can conclude that there is a good chance that there was a witness fall instead of a happy find,” said Dr. Jambon.
'Iron meteorites can be large (hundreds of kg), but this can actually be a problem.
“Large pieces are not workable and you have to separate small pieces (less than one kg), which is hardly possible with the tools of the Iron Age (see, for example, the pieces of iron that are processed by the Inuits).”
Researchers in Spain made a similar discovery in 2024, finding artifacts were made with 'alien metals' 3000 years ago
Researchers in Spain made a similar discovery in 2024, finding artifacts were made 3000 years ago with 'Alien Metals'.
Scientists carried out a new analysis of Villena's treasure, a treasure of 59 gilded objects found in 1963, in which two objects were found of meteoric iron.
A gold -coated cap and bracelet contained the extraterrestrial material of a meteor that, according to the estimates of the team, crashed on the earth a million years ago.
The artifacts were discovered by archaeologist José Maria Soler in December 1963, while he and his team dig a dry river beds from the 'Rambla del Panadero' – about seven miles of Villena.
The study explained that meteorite iron is found in certain species of stony meteorites, mainly composed of silicates – a salt made of silicon and oxygen.
“Because they come out of space, they are composed of an Iron-Nickel alloy with a variable nickel composition larger than five percent due to weight,” researchers wrote.
“They also contain other small and trace chemical elements, where Cobalt is one of the most important.”
