Tut's space-age dagger
03 June 2016 - 09:37
A dagger buried with King Tutankhamun's mummified body was made with metal from a meteorite, a new study has revealed. A team of researchers from Milan Polytechnic, Pisa University and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo used non-invasive, portable X-Ray fluorescence spectrometry to determine the makeup of the weapon.
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