Eshan Maitra
Talking about Egyptian Pharaohs, the most known and recognizable historic figure that comes up is Pharaoh Tutankhamun. He was a shockingly successful ruler for a 9-years boy. But the more to mystery was how suddenly he died, just from a broken leg? There are also all the things about these cursed tomb myths. It is believed, the first man who entered his tomb back in 1922, George Herbert. Even his cause of death was weirdly insignificant, died by mosquito bite. Beside all his stories, ornate sarcophagus and mysterious tomb mysteries, another shocking was added, when his dagger was analyzed to be made from alien material. Means the metal it is made, is out of the world! (I knew it! Egyptian civilization had Alien helps!)
X-ray analysis reveals that, Pharaoh Tut’s dagger is made out Meteoric Iron and Nickel, that must have come from outer space. Tut’s fabled golden dagger went through several research and the joint team consists of Italian and Egyptian researchers failed to recognize the material at first. Finally, they announced Tut was entombed with this dagger made from meteorite in his sarcophagus.
The blade was first described by Howard Carter in 1925 as “a highly ornamented gold dagger with crystal knob”, on a Discovery News report by Rossella Lorenzi. Probably made of iron and gold, also lots of highly detailed patterns and inscriptions on it. But the teams’ new technology of non-invasive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry technique let them look inside and study the blade’s composition. Imagine, how surprised they were!
The scan showed of 11 percent Nickel existence. Where roughly 4 percent nickel can be found on Earth Iron on average. This proves the material’s source is a meteor. Team leader Daniela Comelli from Milan Polytechnic in Italy, told the Discovery News, “Meteoric iron is clearly indicated by the presence of a high percentages of nickel. The nickel and cobalt ratio in the dagger blade is consistent with that of iron meteorites that have preserved the primitive chondritic ratio during planetary differentiation in the early solar system.”
Later they tried to find the origin. On which Comelli added, “We took into consideration all meteorites found within an area of 2,000 km in radius centered in the Red Sea, and we ended up with 20 iron meteorites. Only one, named Kharga, turned out to have nickel and cobalt contents which are possibly consistent with the composition of the blade.”
Scientists and researchers were actually scanning everything in Tut’s tomb for finding the tomb of Queen Nefertiti. Which they believed to behind Tut’s chamber walls. In the meantime, they got lucky about revealing more and more mysteries about great Egyptian Pharaohs.