Egyptians wearing meteorites

[simmo]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/08/20/09/52/earliest-iron-artefacts-came-from-meteorite

Interesting article I saw today. Wonder if they were a witness to a great event or the pieces were just found on the ground and used as jewelry.

I also liked the show "meteor men" who travelled round the world collecting meteorites. They even came here to OZ and found a couple of meteors in the N.T. and across the Nullabour. Should really have taken more notice of the other rocks while out mustering. Silly me I was to busy looking for gold. :lol:

[Stardrifter_WA]

If you find any in WA, don't tell anyone, or throw it over the border :lol: All meteorites found in WA belong to the Government, or should I really say to the people of Western Australia :lol:

[gary]

Hi Simmo,

Thanks for the link.

When the incredible Tutankhamun exhibition was in Melbourne in 2011, it included
jewelery that came from a meteorite.

I would guess out in the desert that meteorite fragments would immediately
strike a regular desert dweller as something geologically unusual and rare.

[sjastro]

A famous example is the Iron Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_(Buddhist_statue)) Buddhist statue made from a rare ataxite meteorite.

The statue has a Buddhist swastika, and was ironically discovered by a Nazi Germany archaeological expedition to Tibet in 1938-39. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938%E2%80%9339_German_expedition_t o_Tibet)

Regards

Steven