King Tut's space dagger.

• Position: HISTORY - King Tutankhamen - Brief article

What do you get the boy king who has everything? A truly out-of-this-world accessory. Thanks to new technology, a team of international scientists determined that the iron used to make the blade of a dagger buried with Egyptian King Tutankhamen more than 3,000 years ago probably originated in space. Researchers used a high-tech X-ray device to analyze the makeup of the metal object; they were then able to link it to a meteorite that fell in Egypt before 1300 B.C. According to their...