Sounds startling, doesn't it? The word "elements" conjures up mental imagery about physics, metallurgy, and "space age" technological knowledge on the part of the Egyptians. It's nice titling if you want to generate hits online. At least someone working at BAR isn't a crusty field archaeologist in their seventies. But when you actually read the article you'll find out it's about iron beads.
You read that correctly. Beads.
The focus of the essay is about the extraterrestrial source of the iron in certain Egyptian beads. No, the iron didn't come from a UFO crash, or alien gods trading advanced material in exchange for... something. Rather, the iron came from meteorites.
Rocks that the Egyptians saw fall from space, not intelligent visitors from space. But still interesting.
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