Egyptian ornaments was made from meteorites

Egyptian ornaments was made from meteorites

  The scientists found that the ancient Egyptian ornaments made ​​from fragments of meteorites.
  Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Egyptian pyramid age of 5,000 years of jewelery, conducted an analysis and found that the composition of these pieces of jewelry include these meteorites. We are talking about iron meteorites. Ucheny even joked about it, that the Egyptians mined material for their jewelry in deep space.

 The first Egyptian bracelets have been found as far back as 1911. They were found on the site of an ancient burial in the village of El Gertseh south of Cairo. According to scientific estimates, the date of burial match 3200 BC.

 In order to determine the cosmic sources of Egyptian jewelry, the scientists had to wonder how in handmade jewelry made ​​of iron. nickel could be present and where it came from. It was after the scientists have wondered this question and compared the data with Egyptian jewelry found on Earth with iron meteorites, which are also present in the nickel (about 7%), scientists have learned that the ancient Egyptians used it for their jewelry fragments of iron meteorites. once fallen to Earth.

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