Posted on 05/20/2022 8:14:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Takafumi Matsui, director of the Chiba Institute of Technology’s Planetary Exploration Research Center in Japan, and his colleagues visited the weapon at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo in 2020 to find out... their chemical analyses of the dagger's blade and gold hilt, combined with historical knowledge of ancient manufacturing techniques, now cast doubt on whether it was crafted in ancient Egypt at all...
Four years later, aided by the Grand Egyptian Museum’s conservation center, Matsui and his colleagues used a portable scanning X-ray fluorescence instrument to map out the elements on the surface of the blade; not just iron, nickel and cobalt, but also chlorine and manganese, among others. They found that the bumpy, black spots along its edges and center, for example, likely originated from troilite — a mineral commonly found in iron meteorites — but had lost a large amount of sulfur after being heated around 1,300 degrees F...
And just as informative as the abundance of these elements is their... three-dimensional, cross-hatched texture, known as a Widmanstätten pattern, occurs in some meteorites if their iron-nickel mixtures separate into bands upon cooling. The pattern is only visible after the rock has been cut, polished and acid-etched, but its near-hidden and lasting presence on King Tut’s dagger reveals that the blade was never heated above 1,700° F (927° C)...
Amarna letters, hundreds of clay tablets considered to be the oldest documents of diplomacy ever found, consist of correspondences written between Egyptian pharaohs and nearby kings. One such letter mentions a list of gifts made of iron — including an iron dagger with “an inlay of genuine lapis lazuli” and a gold sheath — that the king of Mitanni sent to King Tut’s grandfather, Amenhotep III, when the pharaoh married a princess from the region.
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Sounds great, and hey, I'm a little jealous. :^) A friend of mine of that time went to see that exhibition, with his classmate and a teacher who was probably trying to groom them. They also saw a giraffe give birth at the Chicago zoo, an experience he valued more.
Talk about a market crash!
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Made in China
The Goa’uld gave him this dagger.
It might be even more valuable if the provenance could be confirmed. Nonetheless, it’s a pretty good barn find.
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That’s what she said.
Thanks a.e.
https://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm (189, 190)
http://www.varchive.org/tac/hararch.htm
http://www.varchive.org/dag/trowar.htm
http://www.varchive.org/tac/dakhamun.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/carchemish.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/baw.htm
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