when was iron found and who was the first person to find iron?
It is known, from analysis, that all the iron used in the early iron age was pure iron or nickel-iron alloy from meteors that was picked up, heated and hammered (with stone or bronze tools) and did not require refining as does all the iron found on earth which is oxidized from exposure to the air at the molecular level.
It is known, from analysis, that all the iron used in the early iron age was pure iron or nickel-iron alloy from meteors that was picked up, heated and hammered (with stone or bronze tools) and did not require refining as does all the iron found on earth which is oxidized from exposure to the air at the molecular level.
Iron was occasionally found, usually as metallic meteorites, back into early stone age times. The smelting of iron from ores wasn't done until, of course, the iron age, which was as early as about 1300 BCE. There is no single person identified with the process, not even any single peoples, although the Hittites seem to have made a rather big impression on the Egyptians, though no archaeological evidence of that remains.
It was discovered in prehistoric times by an unknown person.
Iron was occasionally found, usually as metallic meteorites, back into early stone age times. The smelting of iron from ores wasn't done until, of course, the iron age, which was as early as about 1300 BCE. There is no single person identified with the process, not even any single peoples, although the Hittites seem to have made a rather big impression on the Egyptians, though no archaeological evidence of that remains.
It was discovered in prehistoric times by an unknown person.
