I was interested to find a book about this as well but came up short. However, these articles might be of interest: J. Waldbaum, "The coming of iron in the Eas

I was interested to find a book about this as well but came up short. However, these articles might be of interest: J. Waldbaum, "The coming of iron in the Eastern Mediterranean: thirty years of archaeological and technological research" in The Archaeometallurgy of the Asian Old World (1996). Thilo Rehren et al, "5,000 years old Egyptian iron beads made from hammered meteoritic iron," Journal of Archaeological Science (2013). Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313002057 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313... One theory about the origins of black stone embedded in the Kaaba in Mecca (whose worship dates back far beyond Islamic times) is that it's also composed of meteoric material.