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Bronze Age people thought Iron was a fallen star from the gods, and it was the gods that created man and gave man that gift to use. Refinement and mining methods of Iron advanced to discover pretty much any surface with red dirt was iron. That legend was later confirmed true in the 20th Century as suspected meteor craters had high traces of Iron when there was no other metal deposit or volcanic activity nearby, and many of the rocks were found around those crater sites with more than 92% pure Iron and 6% Nickel. Iron Nickle is a natural stainless Iron alloy which doesn't rust when exposed to chlorides, like salt, and that's how those rocks remained when everything else became rusted dust for thousands of years. It was also closest to stainless steel, as iron with that amount of purity was denser than any iron found and smelted during the iron age. This was also before NASA accelerated their meteor impact theory that the rock with more velocity than mass in fact explodes apart on the surface like an egg on a window no matter the impact angle and that's why you can't find an intact meteorite inside the impact crater. That's enough impact energy to liquidize solid rock, and fold over the sediment layer on itself. The scientists only found that out thanks to underground atomic bomb testing observed with similar craters formed to meteor impact sites. Well anyway it took humanity more than 4000 years to canonize and confirm the Meteor Iron myth.