Does the mystery behind the Tutankhamun dagger have an extraterrestrial origin?

Almost a century after its discovery, Tutankhamun continues to generate doubts. It is now badumed that some of their instruments are not of terrestrial origin.

In 1922, the Egyptologist Howard Carter met in the middle of the Egyptian desert, the tomb of Tutankhamun. He never thought that inside, he would find the coffin and the personal belongings of the Pharaoh of the XVIIIth Dynasty, which reigned between 1336 and 1327 BC.

Today, almost a century after the discovery of Carter, many discoveries still raise doubts about its origin. We are talking about one of his daggers. It is an elongated iron knife, with golden handle and originated from a meteorite.

According to expert Albert Jambon, a member of the Institute of Materials Physics and Cosmochemistry, he would have shown that the iron used in the Bronze Age still came from meteorites. But in the Iron Age, which began in Anatolia and the Caucasus around 1200 BC, nearly 2,000 years earlier, this practice was abandoned when many cultures were already making objects with this metal.
"These objects were extremely rare and always very appreciated", says the researcher and the author of the article published in an acclaimed science magazine. Its peculiarity is that the iron used was not removed from the surface of the Earth, but rocks from outer space.

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As the study shows, this is not the first time that meteorites are used as a source of this metal. The fact is that until now, the scientific community had not been able to determine whether it was a widespread practice or simply circumscribed to some artifacts of the world. Bronze Age.