Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite

> sheds light on how the ancient Minoan and Mycenaean elite

Mycenaeans are considered Greek.

Minoans generally not considered Greek.

Their script, Linear A, has never been deciphered, so we don’t actually know what language they spoke, but most linguists think it wasn’t Greek, based on how poorly Linear A’s signs map onto Greek phonetics when tested as they do successfully with Mycenaean Linear B.

Culturally the Minoans also look distinct from later Greek civilization. Different religious iconography (bull-leaping, goddess-centric imagery), different art style, no clear warrior-elite hierarchy the way Mycenaean and later Greek society had.

Something about this feels very Tolkien-ish.

Nobody mention it to Peter Thiel, he doesn’t need any more ideas.

In ancient times with no light pollution they could probably see and track meteorites falling. And it could have been easier to access to get those metals than mining.

They're still fashionable! ... or maybe I'm a geek.

A couple of years ago, this 3000 year old arrow head was found in Switzerland, it comes from a meteorite up in Estonia. I read about this news right when I was visiting the island of Saaremaa and the site. It's an amazing place and as the arrow shows, material like this got traded far even quite far back.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-3000-year-old...

If I get lucky in IPO land I'll have my eye on a Jaeger-LeCoultre watch with a meteorite dial, so I guess things have not changed all that much in the last 3500 years :P

My engagement ring contains meteorite, supposedly from the Gibeon Meteorite, although the fact that a single meteorite is a component advertised in so many rings makes me somewhat suspicious as to the quantity or authenticity. But it looks pretty, anyway.

I'm 100% certain that such rings grant superpowers determined by a cosmic RNG.

It should read Egyptian rings forged from meteorites were fashionable within the regional trading area in ancient times. But : cultural misapropriation

> Rings forged from meteorites

When I first read the title, it sounded to me like a classic case of Kessler syndrome.

I wonder how many meteorites were laying around in the early days of humans caring about metal.

The opportunity for fraud is immense, unless the elite sourced their own meteorites.

I can't get past the Cloud<bleep> check. I guess the site/information is for G(r)eek elites only too.