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Ancient peoples sometimes extracted iron ore from meteorite fragments, similar to the one that fell near Pułtusk, north of Warsaw, in 1868. Photo: public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Iron from space found in ‘exceptional’ haul of ancient jewelry in southern Poland

Archaeologists in southern Poland have found an “exceptional” haul of ancient jewelry that makes extensive use of meteoritic iron, which fell to earth from space.