Iron is almost always found in the form of iron ore, which needs to be treated to ... But they could harvest iron from meteorites to make weapons, tools, and decorative objects.

Roll the phrase around your tongue with me: Starmetal sword. Starmetal sword. The lost secret to Damascus steel could totally have been meteorites! Attila the Hun had a sword like this, right?

Archaeologists have discovered 'extraterrestrial metal' used to create jewellery in ancient burial sites in Poland.

The experts observed high concentrations of smelted ore and meteoric iron ... the oldest known example of patterned iron. Fashioning objects from fallen meteorites was a common practice thousands ...

A dull bracelet and a rusted hollow hemisphere decorated with gold are forged, researchers have found, not out of metal from beneath the ground, but with iron from meteorites that fell from the sky.