I love the archaeology page I follow on Facebook - it gets so much interesting stuff on it
Also - they had a neat blurb on Tut on this page: http://www.archaeology.org/issues/235-1611/world (hopefully that works - if not, here's the blurb: EGYPT: Among the many items buried with Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings is an iron dagger. This was centuries before iron smelting emerged in the region, so there has long been academic discussion about whether the iron for the blade was smelted elsewhere and imported as a gift, or came from a metallic meteorite. Using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, physicists have determined, based on the blade’s composition, that it was likely made from meteoritic iron, which the Egyptians called bia-n-pt or, literally, “iron from the sky.” -Samir S. Patel)
And they're rewriting the history of glassmaking in favor of Egypt :D
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I love the archaeology page I follow on Facebook - it gets so much interesting stuff on it
Also - they had a neat blurb on Tut on this page: http://www.archaeology.org/issues/235-1611/world (hopefully that works - if not, here's the blurb: EGYPT: Among the many items buried with Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings is an iron dagger. This was centuries before iron smelting emerged in the region, so there has long been academic discussion about whether the iron for the blade was smelted elsewhere and imported as a gift, or came from a metallic meteorite. Using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, physicists have determined, based on the blade’s composition, that it was likely made from meteoritic iron, which the Egyptians called bia-n-pt or, literally, “iron from the sky.” -Samir S. Patel)
And they're rewriting the history of glassmaking in favor of Egypt :D
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