Space traveling Egyptians? "King Tut's Blade Made of Meteorite"

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By Rossella Lorenzi | May 31, 2016 03:42pm ET

King Tut was buried with a dagger made of an iron that literally came from space, says a new study into the composition of the iron blade from the sarcophagus of the boy king.

Using non-invasive, portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, a team of Italian and Egyptian researchers confirmed that the iron of the dagger placed on the right thigh of King Tut's mummified body a has meteoric origin.

The team, which include researchers from Milan Polytechnic, Pisa University and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, detailed their results in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.

The weapon, now on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was described in 1925 by Howard Carter, who three years before had discovered the treasure-packed tomb, as "a highly ornamented gold dagger with crystal knob."

Made of non-rusted, homogeneous metal, the finely manufactured blade features a decorated gold handle. It is completed by a gold sheath garnished with a floral lily motif on one side and with a feathers pattern on the other side, terminating with a jackal's head.

Now dramatic technological improvements have allowed the researchers to determine the composition of the blade.

"Meteoric iron is clearly indicated by the presence of a high percentages of nickel," main author Daniela Comelli, at the department of Physics of Milan Polytechnic, told Discovery News.

Indeed, iron meteorites are mostly made of iron and nickel, with minor quantities of cobalt, phosphorus , sulfur and carbon.

While artifacts produced with iron ore quarrying display 4 percent of nickel at most, the iron blade of King Tut's dagger was found to contain nearly 11 percent of nickel.

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Further confirmation of the blade's meteoric origin came from cobalt traces.

"The nickel and cobalt ratio in the dagger blade is consistent with that of iron meteorites that have preserved the primitive chondritic ratio during planetary differentiation in the early solar system," Comelli said.

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The study shows the ancient Egyptians attributed great value to meteoritic iron for the production of precious objects, possibly perceiving those chunks of iron falling from the sky as a divine message.

The most ancient Egyptian iron artifacts, nine small beads excavated from a cemetery along the west bank of the Nile tomb in Gerzeh and dated about 3200 BC, are also made from meteoritic iron hammered into thin sheets.

"It would be very interesting to analyze more pre-Iron Age artifacts, such as other iron objects found in King Tut's tomb. We could gain precious insights into metal working technologies in ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean," Comelli said.

She noted that the high quality of King Tut's dagger blade shows that iron smithing was successful already in the 14th century B.C.

The dagger blade is not the only celestial object found in the boy king's tomb. His pectoral, or necklace, features an amulet scarab which is not "greenish-yellow chalcedony," as Carter had noted, but Libyan desert silica glass.

The glass was produced by the impact on the sand of a meteorite or comet. Such natural glass exists only in the remote and inhospitable Great Sand Sea of Egypt — the Western Desert. In order to produce the scarab, the ancient Egyptians would have had to trek across 500 desert miles.

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Where my Kemetians at? Hotep niccas unite

 

[315]

I want one

 

[jdubnyce]

 

[pickles]

So interesting. Look at the detail on that knife.

 

[Diondon]

So interesting. Look at the detail on that knife.

Ancient Egyptians created miracles in mathematics, architecture, agriculture and many other fields. That's why cacs are so determined to claim Egypt. And when they scientifically can't they say well it was some damn aliens responsible for the shyt

 

[BlackMajik]

Ancient Egyptians created miracles in mathematics, architecture, agriculture and many other fields. That's why cacs are so determined to claim Egypt. And when they scientifically can't they say well it was some damn aliens responsible for the shyt

^^^^^^^^^^^This

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

Ancient Egyptians created miracles in mathematics, architecture, agriculture and many other fields. That's why cacs are so determined to claim Egypt. And when they scientifically can't they say well it was some damn aliens responsible for the shyt

And yet they were conquered and exterminated. How u so superior and some arabs on Camels drive u to extinction?

 

[Unknown Poster]

Ancient Egyptians created miracles in mathematics, architecture, agriculture and many other fields. That's why cacs are so determined to claim Egypt. And when they scientifically can't they say well it was some damn aliens responsible for the shyt

Yep.

Anything to just to discredit black people from their accomplishments.

The only time the possibility of alien lifeforms are ever given credibility is when it comes to Ancient Egypt. White society just refuses to admit Ancient Egypt (Kemet "land of the blacks") was black...the shyt is pathetic.

 

[Son of Darkness]

And yet they were conquered and exterminated. How u so superior and some arabs on Camels drive u to extinction?

this.

 

[Paradise]

This is some straight ancient aliens stuff!

 

[Fani Willis fan]

the meteorite probably landed,
but they do have carvings of objects that resemble space craft

 

[Diondon]

And yet they were conquered and exterminated. How u so superior and some arabs on Camels drive u to extinction?

Hey cac!
All Empires rise and fall. It is theorized that AE's fall came about due to internal strife and political upheaval. And this happened over hundreds of years

 

[1 other person]

IS that glass at the bottom of the handle? Very detailed weapon

 

[Mowgli]

And yet they were conquered and exterminated. How u so superior and some arabs on Camels drive u to extinction?

They were fighting other Africans, cacs and arabs in succession, over millenniums. Something had to give. Everyone has their time to be the man and then it's over. Cacs, even with all the most advanced weapons in history won't be any different

 

[Son of Darkness]

Hey cac!
All Empires rise and fall. It is theorized that AE's fall came about due to internal strife and political upheaval. And this happened over hundreds of years

The Persians are still around.
The Greeks are still around.
The Romans are still around.
The British are still around.

Where the fukk are the Egyptians?