When was iron discovered and by whom?

Answer 1

Standard Iron Facts:

Date of Discovery: Known to the ancients
Discoverer: Unknown

BUT

see also http://www.news.wisc.edu/12636.html for a new form of iron just found.

Answer 2

No record of when or who, it happened too long
ago. Sometime in thousands of years B.C. The
first discovery of it may have been in meteorites,
as someone else suggested. The Sumerians usually get credit for being the first who were able
to extract it from ore and work it, but the Chinese
may have been onto it as early.

Answer 3

"The first signs of use of iron come from the Sumerians and the Egyptians, where around 4000 BCE"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron#History

Most answers can be aswered by Wikipedia. However, it always a good idea to double check the answer by cross referencing it to other sites.

Answer 4

Probably iron meteorites by Cro Magnon man if you mean our species

Answer 5

I am not sure if they are credited for its discovery, but the ancient Greeks are one of the first civilizations to make extensive use of the metal.

Answer 6

iron age, 500BC the Greeks