Tutankhamun’s “meteoric iron dagger”, also known as Tutankhamun’s iron dagger and King Tut’s dagger, is an iron-bladed dagger discovered during 1925 in the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s 14th century BC King’s Valley tomb by archaeologist Howard Carter.
I’m not sure about you, but when I hear a story too mainstream, I immediately want to look more into it.
The other iron objects were wrapped with Tutankhamun’s mummy; these include a miniature headrest contained inside the golden death mask, an amulet attached to a golden bracelet and a dagger blade with gold haft. All were made by relatively crude methods with the exception of the dagger blade which is clearly expertly produced.
This suggests that the dagger was probably imported to Egypt perhaps as a royal gift from a neighboring territory, indicating that at this time Egypt’s knowledge and skills of iron production were relatively limited. Only further analytical testing can confirm if all of these artifacts are made from meteorite iron but they do appear to suggest that iron was a material used to indicate high status at the time of Tutankhamun’s death in approximately 1327 BC.
Of course, the meteoric theory was just that… a theory.
However:
If not made in Egypt… then where?
Have you seen the 5000YBP+/- Yamnaya/Afanasievo and Catacombe R1b Kurgan iron artifacts?
I will give you some time to look it up.
Stay tuned for Part II…