Trilobites: Ancient Jars Hold Clues About Earth’s Fluctuating Magnetic Fields

Monday, February 20, 2017 - 14:51 in Astronomy & Space

By scanning pottery from the Iron Age kingdom of Judah, geoscientists detected a spike and then a decline in the planet’s magnetic field starting in the eighth century B.C.

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