The journal “Planetary and Meteoritic Science” published a study saying that the dagger of Tutankhamun is of alien origin, and was not made in Egypt, but in the lands of Anatolia.
Tutankhamun’s dagger
She stated that a recent scientific study proved that the dagger of Tutankhamun was not made in Egypt, but was made in the lands of Anatolia, which was then ruled by the kings of the Mitanni civilization, and that the dagger was made of meteorite stones, which were known in that era as the iron of the sky.
It turned out to be produced in ANATOLIA
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She indicated that when the tomb was discovered on November 4, 1922, Howard Carter found two daggers carefully wrapped inside the laces that wrapped the mummy of Tutankhamun, one with a golden blade, while the other had an iron blade, and both had a sheath.
She emphasized that the iron dagger was the most precious of all because during the life of Tutankhamun (who ruled from 1336 to 27 BC), iron, or “heaven’s iron” as it was called, was a rare and precious metal, as it was extracted almost entirely from meteorites;
She pointed out that other iron objects were found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, which are: 16 small blades, a small headrest, and an amulet, explaining that these pieces are not elaborately made and small in size because they were made by local craftsmen who found difficulty in manufacturing rare meteorite iron, but that The dagger of Tutankhamun with the iron blade was different, as it was well-made, which is likely to have been brought to Egypt from an area that used to manufacture iron, which is Anatolia in that time immemorial.
It turned out that the dagger found in the golden coffin of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was produced in Anatolian lands. https://t.co/IkWYfuNLkW pic.twitter.com/EP58FZW5ZZ
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The study concluded from the foregoing that given the scarcity of high-quality ironware at the time, it is likely that Tutankhamun, the grandson of Amenhotep, inherited the dagger from his grandfather, and was eventually buried with him.
Scientists believe that the iron objects discovered that preceded the discovery of ferrous metals came from meteoric iron.
What is sky iron?
Scientists called “the iron of the sky” for what they discovered were metal pieces that fell from space and meteorites and were later made on Earth, especially following a dagger was found in Turkey dating back thousands of years before the birth of Tutankhamun as well. These elements were of great value in Egypt and beyond.
Researchers have discovered in the 3,400-year-old Amarna Letters, which were considered as diplomatic messages of the Pharaonic civilization and documented diplomatic activities in ancient Egypt in the middle of the fourteenth century BC, that Tutankhamun’s grandfather married the daughter of King Mitanni III, who gave Amenhotep a dagger. Iron with golden sheath.
Scientists recently photographed Tutankhamun’s iron dagger with X-rays in an attempt to understand how the metal body was made of a meteorite, in order to determine its chemical composition. They found its composition rich in nickel and cobalt, “which strongly indicates its space origin.” Where scientists compared this composition to meteorites that fell within 2,000 km of the coast of the Red Sea EgyptianAnd they found the levels in one of these meteorites very close, and the researchers stated that it was possible that the dagger was made by spinning at a very low temperature.
Kharga meteor
The scientific study revealed that the meteorite, whose proportions matched the dagger, was called the “Kharga” meteorite, and it was found in the city of Marsa Matruh, 240 km west of Alexandria, and this city was known as “Ammonia” during the reign of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC. “.
In turn, Tomoko Arai, co-author of the new study by Chiba Institute of Technology, said they conducted a “non-destructive two-dimensional chemical analysis of the dagger” in Japan.
Tomoko continues, they began by X-ray mapping the basic structure of the dagger blade and found dense concentrations of iron, nickel, magnesium and cobalt.
Tomoko adds that they also found sulfur, chlorine, calcium and zinc in the black spots on the blade, and their distribution was interesting, like all other minerals that make up the dagger’s iron.
In an attempt to find out the origin of the dagger, scientists compared the pattern on the dagger of Tutankhamun with the pattern on the Japanese meteorite known as “Shirahagi”, which is the source of iron in many historical Japanese swords, but no connection between them appeared.
Although the ancients knew regarding copper and bronze works since the fourth millennium BC, iron works did not appear until much later, and they were known to be rare in Egypt.
In 2013, it was found that 9 blackish-coloured iron beads extracted from a tomb in northern Egypt near the Nile River had been struck from meteorite fragments, and that they were a mixture of iron and nickel, and the beads dated back to the era before the young pharaoh in 3200 BC.
