Ferrous metallurgy Wikipedia
Bloomery smelting during the Middle Ages.. Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its earliest surviving prehistoric iron artifacts, from the 4th millennium BC in Egypt, were made from meteoritic ironnickel. It is not known when or where the smelting of iron from ores began, but by the end of the 2nd millennium BC iron was being produced from iron ores in the region from ...