But if you missed those pieces or need a quick refresher, here’s the quick and dirty: Thousands of years ago, Middle Eastern blacksmiths shaped an Indian steel called wootz into blades with a rippling ...

Turns out, a nose job in ancient India wasn’t just a myth. Indian metallurgists were crafting super-strong Wootz steel around 300 BCE, which was so good it spread across the ancient world.

While the process is nothing like that used by smiths in Damascus working with Wootz steel, the general idea of a metal material with varying properties throughout remains the same. For those ...

"We suggest that meteoritic iron was deliberately used to produce a specific pattern for iron jewelry, a thousand years before the supposed invention of Indian wootz steel and Damascus steel ...

But if you missed those pieces or need a quick refresher, here’s the quick and dirty: Thousands of years ago, Middle Eastern blacksmiths shaped an Indian steel called wootz into blades with a rippling ...