You may have thought that beading was a relatively new pastime however after being discovered in 1911 iron beads from an excavation south of Cairo dating to 33503600BC thought to have been the result of an early iron smeltering attempt have recently be re-examined, in combination the Open Universities’ electron microscope and Manchester Universities X-Ray CT scanner have provided evidence that the beads are of meteorite origin.
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