In addition to the folk tales, this knowledge died along with the ancient world, along with myths, language, writing systems, and related rituals. Only in the late 18th century, among European intellectuals, the idea that meteorites come from the sky was hesitantly brought up again. In terms of the history of science, especially astronomy, ancient Egyptian society has not received the recognition they deserve.

Different from the people of Babylon and Greece, the Egyptians did not use mathematical models to predict astronomical phenomena throughout their history. Their knowledge of meteoric iron was not recorded descriptively and linearly in scientific books. Instead, it was embedded in metaphors and rituals.