The blade that lay against King Tut's mummy for three thousand years turned out to be extraterrestrial — its metal matches the composition of meteorites, meaning the boy king was buried with a weapon forged from iron that fell from the sky

The blade that lay against King Tut's mummy for three thousand years turned out to be extraterrestrial — its metal matches the composition of meteorites, meaning the boy king was buried with a weapon forged from iron that fell from the sky

Two daggers were folded into the linen around Tutankhamun’s body when the mummy was unwrapped in 1925. One had a gold blade. The other was iron, a metal that in fourteenth-century BCE Egypt was rarer and more valuable than gold, and which had still not rusted after more than three thousand years in a tomb. The iron blade lay against the king’s right thigh. It measures 34.2 centimetres, with a gold hilt, rock crystal pommel and decorated gold she…