We have all learnt about the Ancient Egyptians back in school, we all love their pyramids, their camels and also their historic mummifying past.
King Tutankhamen was enough for us to try and spell when we were kids, let alone learn about! But it was fun to be educated on him nonetheless.
His hidden rooms aren’t the only mysterious edition to him in recent times, it turns out his trusty dagger is made out of a meteorite.
The dagger was found in 1923 by Howard Carter, the same man who discovered King Tut’s corpse three years previously.
The dagger was in wrapper on the right thigh of the corpse, amazing how it took 3 years to find something that seems so obvious, but it is one of the oldest iron artefacts that dates back to the 14th century BC.
Daniella Comeli, who is a professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan, headed the team that found out that the blade contains similar elements to meteorite!
The research technique called X-ray florescence that helped identify the materials by the colours that the light gives off and then compared these results to research done on 11 other metallic meteorites.
How about that, a dagger from outer space! It’s not exactly a lightsaber (for the disappointment to you all), but this is still extraordinary!
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