King Tut's dagger blade confirmed made from a meteorite

[smocks]

Yea, with this newfound piece information of the dagger , it just brings up a whole new view and world of questions about it and our history. What and how did we make the technologies we have today? Second-guessing origins and what not.

(off-topic but this article reminded me of Ancient Aliens if any of you are a sucker of it xD)

 

[Her]

now THIS is opulence

But that's damn cool, honestly. So is the implication here that we know less about Ancient Egypt smithing techniques than previously thought or that the blade (not necessarily the handle as well) originated outside of the empire at the time?

 

[KetsuekiR]

What an incredible find! It just goes to show how much we've lost to time. As Harley Quinn stated, it may be of outside origin, perhaps another civilization, or we could simple be in the dark about their techniques. If that's the case, imagine what else they had the technology to do, that we've yet to discover?

 

[Desert Stream~]

This is really cool! I never saw this coming.

 

[Blu·Ray]

now THIS is opulence

But that's damn cool, honestly. So is the implication here that we know less about Ancient Egypt smithing techniques than previously thought or that the blade (not necessarily the handle as well) originated outside of the empire at the time?

The article actually says that the blade was not smithed, but instead hammered to shape, since they had no smithing until much later. For this reason, iron was highly valuable in ancient Egypt, as they could only get it from meteors. Wikipedia says that Egyptians called iron, "Copper from the heavens"^[1] for that reason.