The Extraterrestrial Jewelry of Iron Age Poland

Weekly Jarlig #6 – Your fresh scoop of history and archaeology

Hey, history buffs!

Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Jarlig, your go-to source for the latest updates from history’s frontlines.

I hope you had a chance to review my latest post on a trip down memory lane to the Black Sea coastal city of Nesebar with a 3,000-year-old history. In case you’ve missed it, here are the highlights:

• A pitstop at Sofia en route to Sunny Beach and Nesebar.

• A History of Nesebar from Thracian times till Roman rule.

• Churches dating from the Byzantine period and how the city changed hands between Byzantines and Bulgarians.

• The significance of rose in Bulgaria.

• A bonus dining guide.

Yesterday, on Notes, I shared an Inuit lance made using a narwhal tusk with a meteoritic iron tip.

The iron came from the Cape York meteorite in Greenland. For my master’s thesis, I researched the microstructures of iron-nickel meteorites, and Cape York was one of the samples I worked on.

Hence, today’s top discovery is nostalgic, as it brings back memories of polishing countless me…