The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 10:34 pm
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. 
The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 12664/full
The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade
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).
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 12664/full
