Iron oxide baked into Mesopotamian bricks confirms ancient magnetic field anomaly

December 27, 2023

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About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of the metal grains in those bricks has confirmed a mysterious anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field.

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