A dagger buried alongside King Tutankhamun was made with iron from a meteorite, according to research published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Using X-ray fluorescence, a team of ...

King Tut lay underground in his tomb for a few thousand years, but a dagger he kept by his side has far-out origins in outer space. “The nickel and cobalt ratio in the dagger blade is consistent with ...

King Tut's Dagger Just Got More Interesting: King Tut’s dagger is out of this world—or at least it was at some point. Researchers who analyzed the blade say the iron used to make it came from a meteor ...

Scientists have confirmed that a dagger found in Tutankhamun’s tomb was fashioned from a meteorite. This suggests that the boy king was living exactly like any teenaged boy who found himself king, ...

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New research shows that an iron dagger buried with King Tutankhamun was made from a meteorite. It even suggests the Egyptians knew what they were working with. Archaeologists and historians have been ...

King Tutankhamun, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, was entombed with a dagger made from metal mined from a meteorite, according to a new scientific study. The iron dagger was discovered within ...

(NEWSER) – An ancient, cosmic dagger and a new way of looking at T. rex make the list of the week's intriguing discoveries: ...

A gold and crystal dagger that's in Tut's crypt has been found to have a blade composed of iron, nickel and cobalt. A material so valued, that at... King Tut's Dagger Made From A Meteorite, ...