Article 5W9R8 King Tut's Meteorite Dagger Has a Mystery Origin Story

King Tut's Meteorite Dagger Has a Mystery Origin Story

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Isaac Schultz
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A team of researchers recently X-ray scanned an iron dagger found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to figure out how the object, the metal of which came from a meteorite, was made. They suspect the dagger was created through low-temperature forging-but they don't think it was crafted in Egypt.

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