Let's think about who first encountered iron in history.
Historians believe that the Egyptians were the first people to work with a small amount
of iron, some 5,000~6,000 years ago The metal they used the words apparently extracted
from meteorites.
The name Iron was derived from the Etruscan word "aiser" meaning the god's because the
earliest iron was obtained from meteorites and the meteorites fall from the sky.
Then Let us think about who first made iron.
The first iron extracted from iron oxide deposits could have resulted from a wood fire as some
windswept cliff in enriched in iron oxide, the ashes contained small amount of Iron sponge.
This sponge was remained iron after removal of Oxygen or, the art of iron production from
or arose in connection with the practice of copper and lead technologies.
Iron ores was added fluxes for treatment of sulfide copper ores producing iron drops.
However, this is a less likely believed.
And then let us think about who first produced iron.
Iron smelting- the extraction of usable metal from oxidized iron ores- is more difficult
than tin and copper smelting technologies.
Thus humans only mastered the technology of a smelted iron after several millennia of
Bronze metallurgy.
The Hittites in Anatolia area now Turkey area appeared to be the first to understand their
production of iron from its ores, and regard it highly in their society.
They began to smelt iron between 1500 and 1200 BC and the practice spread to the rest
of the near East after their empire fell in 1180 BC.
The subsequent spread is corded Iron ages.