Scientists have been trying to explain the emergence of life for centuries. Did it form on Earth? Or did it originate in space and arrive on our planet via meteorites? A mysterious Hypatia stone that fell to Earth from space raises a lot of questions in this regard, scientist Georgy Belyanin reveals. The Hypatia stone that was found by Egyptian geologist Ali Barakat in southwestern Egypt in 1996 could change our entire understanding on how life, including human, emerged, geologist Georgy Belyanin said. The mysterious rock, characterized by its unusual hardness and composition, was sent to Jan Kramer from the Geology Department of Johannesburg University in South Africa when nobody else knew how to look inside it and examine its essence (previous attempts to break it with a saw failed). "At that time, we already had a device that enabled us to determine whether it was earthly or a cosmic material," Belyanin, who is also a researcher in Kramer's team, said in an interview with Sputnik