This high-status gift is one of the many ways meteoritic iron was revered by ancient civilizations. One of the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics for iron seems to be derived from a longer phrase ...

The table above is the complete Mecca Ramadan Calendar 2025. Here you can see the Sehri timing and iftar timing in Mecca from the first to the last Ramadan fasting day. The Islamic and Gregorian ...

At the heart of Mecca stands Al Masjid al Ḩarām, also known as the Great Mosque of Mecca. Its expansive white stone structure makes it easy to identify from above. At the center of the mosque lies the ...

The map below shows the location of Jerusalem and Mecca. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

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The Pampanga and Paitan meteorites have officially returned to the Philippines. At an unveiling event on Saturday in a Pasig City mall, the Philippine Meteorite Repatriation Team, in collaboration ...

A set of ancient artifacts, dating back over 2,700 years, has been found to include iron forged from meteorites– an extraordinary find that is rewriting what we know about early metalworking.

The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are ...

They extracted molybdenum from meteorite samples obtained from the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. The scientific community has divided meteorites into two ...

Earth and Mars contain significantly fewer MVEs than primitive meteorites (chondrites), raising fundamental questions about planetary formation. Published in Science Advances, the study takes a ...