The dagger buried with Tutankhamun is not of this world… its blade is made from meteorite iron

[removed]

TLDR

Tutankhamun’s iron dagger, discovered in his tomb, is made from meteoric iron, as confirmed by its composition—mostly iron, with 11% nickel and 0.6% cobalt. This matches the composition of known iron meteorites.

During Tutankhamun’s time (c. 1323 BC), iron smelting was rare, and iron was more valuable than gold, primarily used for ceremonial and ornamental purposes. Scholars have long debated the origins of early iron artifacts, as iron objects from this period are scarce. Testing ancient Egyptian artifacts has been challenging due to strict regulations, but advancements in X-ray fluorescence spectrometry over the past 20 years have enabled non-destructive testing. This technology confirmed that the dagger’s material came from a meteorite, reinforcing the idea that early iron artifacts were sourced from meteoritic iron rather than being smelted from earthly ores.

[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_dagger)

oooooo star metal, serpent men better watch out.

The one on the left is a Buster Warenski piece.

so what buffs does it have?

It’s not as rare as you’d think. There is a whole community of people who seek these even today. And they find a lot of that stuff, but most of it is in small quantity or not notable.

I remember there was a Brittish (I think they were) researcher who collected dust from roofs to analyze to find space dust and particulate from meteors. Turns out they had to stop collecting it and tell people to stop sending dust to them, because that stuff was everywhere and it’s very plentiful.

If you want to find meteors, then dry rocky deserts are apparently the best. As they have very little vegetation or loose earth that could cover the stuff, or water to wash it off or erode it. You can even train dogs to sniff the stuff out. Visual, isotope and chemical analysis can be used to validate the findings.

Well yeah that’s how people got iron before mining was a thing

Everything was a meteorite at some point, i guess.

Kinda like the spear of Destiny!?

Need this, don’t have a good letter opener yet

Serial numbered with a sharpie.

So rumours aliens helped build the pyramids is real. A gift by them to him

Right blade is the meteorite blade. Fun fact, the blade is theorised to have been imported, potentially from the Hittites or Mitanni.
Left blade is apparently hardened gold.
Reading about it, strikes me that process to hardening gold could’ve been more complicated than smelting iron

Meteoric iron makes super brittle knives/ blades but since this is just ornamental it just adds to the cool factor.

It sort of blows my mind what must have been in other pharoahs’ tombs. It’s basically because Tut was so shortlived and forgettable that we even still found his tomb unplundered, right? Like the graverobbers even forgot him. What art and treasure was in the tombs of the great kings and queens?

The good old days…

Most of the surface metal on earth are from meteorites.

During the formation of earth, all the heavy metal sank to the center to form the metal core. The lighter elements remain on top to form the crust.

Any heavy elements that we find in the crust most likely came from meteorites that fell down after the crust solidified.

Funny, I watched a little YouTube video about this today. Called “today I found out”.

Obviously the pyramids were built by aliens…. Someone point me to the Stargate

Ice. Cold.