King Tut lay underground in his tomb for a few thousand years, but a dagger he kept by his side has far-out origins in outer space. “The nickel and cobalt ratio in the dagger blade is consistent with ...

A dagger buried alongside King Tutankhamun was made with iron from a meteorite, according to research published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Using X-ray fluorescence, a team of ...

King Tut's Dagger Just Got More Interesting: King Tut’s dagger is out of this world—or at least it was at some point. Researchers who analyzed the blade say the iron used to make it came from a meteor ...

King Tutankhamun, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, was entombed with a dagger made from metal mined from a meteorite, according to a new scientific study. The iron dagger was discovered within ...