Meteorites in the Chinese chronicles

Details, drew from the classical writers, especially those relating to the most ancient times, is not accurate. Interpretation is explained in this sense, some parts of Homer's very doubtful, the news of the stones that fell from the sky in Boeotia near Orhomena during Eteocles, the son of Oedipus, although more specific, but not exact. The first undoubted news, found in Greek writers, regard the meteorite that fell in 465 year BC. Egos near-Potamos in the Hellespont, near the present Gallipoli, ie, where the decisive battle took place later, completed the Peloponnesian War. Since then, Greek and Roman writers tell us constantly about the fall of meteorites. In Rome, even in ancient times, during the reign of Numa Pompiliya, dropped a metal block, which had the shape of a shield, it was regarded as a talisman. As for other stones like backgrounds, they were kept in temples and were the object of universal veneration, so it was in Crete, Fiivah, at Ephesus, in Pessinunte in Phrygia and elsewhere. Tremendous popularity enjoyed a meteorite at 2 meters tall, the so-called Hajar al-Aswad, he vmuravlen in the southern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, and millions of people worship him now. Special power and meaning attributed to meteor iron: metal falling from the sky, was regarded as an undoubted gift of God, and had to have miraculous properties. Around the east spread belief that the meteoric iron has a win and protects wounds, various generals have tried to manufacture a weapon from this iron. This fact is especially noteworthy that the meteoric iron is difficult to forging, and the art of the most experienced masters are powerless. Most meteorites consists of solid plates, and because things are made from it are given by the Damascus experience. It is very likely that the oriental art in the preparation of the Damascus blades began to craft wonderful meteor sword.