King Tut's Dagger Is From Outer Space

Actually, the material used to make it is from outer space. The blade was forged from a meteorite; the handle and sheath are made of gold.


This meteorite dagger is not only ludicrously beautiful – indicating that some remarkable craftsmanship went into making it – but it is yet another piece of rarified evidence that the Ancient Egyptians placed great importance on forging ornaments from meteoric iron long before the dawn of the Iron Age.http://www.iflscience.com/space/king-tuts-burial-blade-was-forged-iron-meteorite

 

Cool.

 

Cool post. Can anyone tell if the animal at the top of the scabbard is a warthog, or wilderbeast, or an elephant?

 

The top animal in the row of animals going down the scabbard looks like lion to me.

The other animals look like horned gazelle type animals being hunted by dogs.

 

The blue inlay has to be lapis lazulli

 

I see what looks like a wolf eating a deer. Or some Egyptian variation of wolves and deer. Perhaps a jackal? I don't know.

 

Here's a link to a larger image: http://www.discoverytsx.com/userfiles/image/gallery/1/orig/TUT1-CeremonialDagger.jpg

 

I wondered why it was called a ceremonial dagger and I found this:


On the active side of the Ceremonial Dagger, a Lotus is represented with its top pointing outward (on the dagger of king Tut, the Lotus points inward, toward the hand). This to indicate the use of the Dagger is only permitted to protect Life, Light and Love, symbolized by the Blue Lotus, never to operate death, darkness and hatred. http://www.maat.sofiatopia.org/studio.htm

 

Some sites are saying this is the dagger... Which is iron.





That other one looks more like bronze...

 

This dagger does look like it makes more sense to be the right one.

 

he had 2

the first one is pure gold

 

I'm seeing that elsewhere also, but that is one beautiful blade.

Why would they write directly on the artifact? Are these some sort of barbarian scientists who don't care about rules?

 

It's actually an anal probe.

 

Yes, this one looks more like pure iron.

 

ASMO! What is going on inside your mind?

 

What if the gods were astronauts and into SM?

 

I can't remember for sure; but, I think the Egyptians did use dogs during hunting. I thought the relief at the top right might have been a warthog or something with tusks. It could be a flowery design. It is at the top above the top deer.

 

On a more serious note:

Very plausible! Hunting scenes have been common decoration subjects on things like daggers for thousands of years. Of course this counted mostly for rich men's daggers (like the ones from kings!), the more you actually used your knife the more practical it was and looked

 

More specifically they used Jackals...

 

I saw a replica of this dagger being sold and those are curly design pieces on the replica.