They confirmed that there is nickel in Pharaoh’s dagger You …

One of the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century was, without a doubt, that of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The discovery of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter made it possible to find not only the tomb of one of the Egyptian pharaohs, but also the materials with which it was buried. In the tomb sealed over 3000 years ago, there was, among other objects, a of, whose composition has given rise to various theories.

It happens that the dagger is formed by an iron knife with a golden hilt, and the presence of a material has been detected which, in Pharaoh’s time, was unknown to mankind. Today it is known to be nickel.

According to Journal of Archaeological ScienceDuring the Bronze Age, meteorite materials were used to make metal objects. This was the case until the Iron Age, so it is very possible that a meteorite was later found in Egypt and used, among other things, to make the dagger.

The most extreme hypothesis indicates that just as there may have been alien help to build the pyramids, there may have been a hand from another planet to make the dagger.

It’s not just the dagger that has this material. Five years ago, Tutankhamun’s armor was examined with X-rays: the presence of nickel was detected, in addition to iron and cobalt, which would have used materials taken from 76 iron meteorites found on Earth.

“Meteoric iron is clearly indicated by the presence of a high percentage of nickel,” said Daniela Comelli, from the physics department at the Polytechnic University of Milan, responsible for the study. Scientists went in search of the meteorite.

“We took into account all the meteorites found within a 2,000 kilometer radius centered on the Red Sea, and we ended up with 20 iron meteorites,” Comelli said. Iron meteorites contain nickel, with small amounts of cobalt, phosphorus, sulfur, and carbon. The blade of the dagger had eleven percent nickel, when the presence of this material in the elements forged with mined iron ore does not exceed 4 percent.

Research points to a meteorite, called Kharga, which “had a nickel and cobalt content probably consistent with the composition of the leaf,” Comelli added. A fragment of this meteorite was found in 2000 on a limestone plateau in Mersa Matruh, a seaport 230 kilometers west of Alexandria. According to Comelli, “the ancient Egyptians placed great value on meteorite iron for the manufacture of precious objects”.