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How did ancient cultures discover iron? It fell from the sky.

2024-04-15    

Egyptologist Victoria Almansa-Villatoro scanned the hieroglyphs with two extended fingers. Wearing a white baseball cap, a magenta backpack, and Nike sneakers with a pink swoosh, she cut an image of modernity, striking in that ancient place. A scholar of Old Kingdom texts with the Harvard Society of Fellows, Almansa-Villatoro had agreed to show me the tombs of Saqqara, about 15 miles south of Cairo.

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