Ancient Jars Hold Clues About Earth’s Fluctuating Magnetic Fields



By KENNETH CHANG

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.

Published: February 14, 2017 at 01:00AM

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