Half-cocked
Senior Meatbag
- Mar 14, 2006
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An iron dagger that was buried with King Tutankhamun around 1400 B.C., around 600 years before iron was smelted in that region, was apparently made from a meteor. Analysis shows it contains nickel and cobalt in concentrations found in iron meteorites.
Pretty epic when you think about it... being lucky enough to have iron weapon, in an era when everyone else around you only had copper and bronze, would have been like having a sword made of Valyrian steel.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/king-tut-dagger-1.3610539
Pretty epic when you think about it... being lucky enough to have iron weapon, in an era when everyone else around you only had copper and bronze, would have been like having a sword made of Valyrian steel.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/king-tut-dagger-1.3610539