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King Tut's Blade Made of Meteorite
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| May 31, 2016 03:42pm ET
| Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 06/01/2016 6:10:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
King Tut was buried with a dagger made of an iron that literally came from space, says a new study into the composition of the iron blade from the sarcophagus of the boy king.
Using non-invasive, portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, a team of Italian and Egyptian researchers confirmed that the iron of the dagger placed on the right thigh of King Tut's mummified body a has meteoric origin.
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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: 18thdynasty; amarna; ancientegypt; callingartbell; catastrophism; cobalt; egypt; fluorescence; godsgravesglyphs; greatsandsea; iron; kingtut; markboslough; meteorite; meteoriticglass; meteoriticiron; newkingdom; rossellalorenzi; spectrometry; tutankhamun; xray
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posted on
06/01/2016 6:10:11 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/01/2016 6:10:38 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
I’m not saying it was aliens...
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posted on
06/01/2016 6:14:07 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: BenLurkin
Alan Ladd, as Jim Bowie, had such a knife made from a meteorite in The Iron Mistress.
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posted on
06/01/2016 6:16:35 AM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
To: Paine in the Neck
Also Sokka in Avatar, the Last Airbender.
To: BenLurkin
Not uncommon in ancient times. Meteoric steel was discussed in “The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention.” I hadn’t heard of this before reading the book recently.
Wiki...Before the advent of iron smelting, meteoric iron was the only source of iron metal apart from minor amounts of telluric iron. Meteoric iron was already used before the beginning of the iron age to make cultural objects, tools and weapons.
To: BenLurkin
interesting...
maybe there is a grain of truth in many ancient tales of weapons being given to great men from the Gods.
A weapon made from metal which fell from the sky might certainly be considered a gift of the gods.
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06/01/2016 6:22:26 AM PDT
by
TexasFreeper2009
(You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
To: BenLurkin
A blade made of meteorite is less impressive to me than the butt of that handle being made of plastic.
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posted on
06/01/2016 6:24:38 AM PDT
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Oratam
To: BenLurkin
Incredibly beautiful craftsmanship. Thanks.
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06/01/2016 6:25:48 AM PDT
by
Duchess47
("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
To: TexasFreeper2009
Especially when the blade would knick opposing blades made of the best metal known at the time, bronze.
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06/01/2016 6:38:05 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: 2banana
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posted on
06/01/2016 6:39:17 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: Oratam
Egyptian glass. Mostly seen in small beads and roughly shaped tiny bottles. Museums have display cases full of it. But that size, shaped as a knife hilt, and of such perfect clarity would have been a real technical achievement in 1330 BCE.
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06/01/2016 6:44:44 AM PDT
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katana
To: katana
Mostly seen in small beads and roughly shaped tiny bottles.
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06/01/2016 7:01:52 AM PDT
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null and void
(Progressives replaced doublethink, doublespeak with nothink, nospeak. Orwell wasn't up to the task)
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06/01/2016 7:04:50 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: katana
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06/01/2016 7:06:02 AM PDT
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Oratam
To: BenLurkin
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06/01/2016 7:08:49 AM PDT
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Pelham
(Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. Look, some moron put "callingartbell" into the keywords.
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06/01/2016 7:09:10 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: SunkenCiv
Whoa. How cool is that? And the scabbard is beautiful!
Thanks, SC!
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06/01/2016 7:12:52 AM PDT
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Monkey Face
(Tolerance is not conformity to the world's view and practices...John A Widsoe)
To: Monkey Face
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06/01/2016 7:17:17 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: SunkenCiv
I always wondered if the legend of Excalibur - being a sword drawn from a stone (or in another telling, drawn from an anvil) was a mythological telling of a sword made from meteorite iron? There is an American Indian legend of dipping stone tipped weapons into a porous meteorite so they can gain power - a water connection to Excalibur and the sword emerging from a lake.
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06/01/2016 7:21:29 AM PDT
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Trumpinator
("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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