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The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade

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Holy moly! When I read archaeological Biblical texts I often hear of iron, but it never dawned on me that it could be meteoritic iron. Way cool. 8-)

The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade
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Recently it has been reported that the most ancient Egyptian iron artifacts, i.e., nine small beads, excavated from a tomb in Gerzeh (Egypt) and dated about 3200 BCE (Stevenson 2009), are made of meteoritic iron, carefully hammered into thin sheets (Johnson et al. 2013; Rehren et al. 2013). Our finding confirms that excavations of important burials, including that of King Tutankhamun, have uncovered pre-Iron Age artifacts of meteoritic origin (Johnson et al. 2013).

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Re: The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade

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good article :)
this is very interesting and importand topic
there are many artifacts made of meteorite iron (from around the world) which only proof that the ancient people knew more then we think
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