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The Gerzeh bead

Ancient Egyptians wore jewellery made from meteorites

Posted on 05/31/201305/03/2019
Ancient Egyptians wore jewellery made from meteorites. The Gerzeh bead
The Gerzeh bead. Ancient Egyptians wore jewellery made from meteorites

Ancient Egyptians wore jewellery made from meteorites

Excavated in 1911 strings of iron beads at the Gerzeh cemetery, a burial site approximately 70km south of Cairo, have becone a sensation. Scientists analyzed dating from 3350 to 3600 BC, thousands of years before Egypt’s Iron Age, the bead. Originally assumed to be from a meteorite, its composition consisted of nickel-rich iron. Undoubtedly, the discovered 5,000 year-old ancient Egyptian artifact made from a meteorite is an important find. In fact, it unlocked the mystery surrounding the presence of iron among the ancient Egyptians. ‘The sky was very important to the ancient Egyptians,’ says Joyce Tyldesley, an Egyptologist at the University of Manchester, UK, and a co-author of the paper on the discovery. ‘Something that falls from the sky is going to be considered as a gift from the gods.’

The Gerzeh bead
Samples of Gerzeh bead

Noteworthy, microscopy showed that the nickel content of this original metal was high. In particular, as much as 30% — suggesting that it did indeed come from a meteorite. Backing up this result, the team observed that the metal had a distinctive crystalline structure called a Widmanstatten pattern.

jewelry made from meteorites
Collage Ancient Egyptians wore meteorite jewelry

This structure found only in iron meteorites that cooled extremely slowly inside their parent asteroids as the Solar System was forming. Heaven-sent iron bead poses exciting questions about the way the cosmos influenced their religion.

Ancient Egyptians wore jewellery made from meteorites

jewelry made from meteorites
Women of ancient Egypt wore jewellery made from meteorites
Ancient Egyptians wore jewellery made from meteorites
Meteorite jewelry for ancient Egypt

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