Archaeologists recently discover that one of Egypt's most fascinating artifacts didn't originate in the transcontinental country.
King Tutankhamun's legendary iron dagger has long been discussed by scholars pertaining to its meteoritic origin. Debates had been raised about how the dagger came to be, but the space rock itself that created it revealed a mystery that has not been previously tackled.
When archaeologists first glimpsed the gilded splendor of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, they never thought that one of the most fascinating artifacts didn’t originate in Egypt or on Earth.
A combined team of researchers from Japan and Egypt has found evidence that suggests a dagger found in King Tut's tomb had origins outside of Egypt. In their paper published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, the group describes.
There are few Egyptians – ancient or modern – as famous as King Tut, the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th Dynasty. His fame today comes from the discovery in 1922 of his nearly intact tomb filled with treasures made famous by