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King Tutankhamun Was Mummified Alongside A Cosmic Dagger

We're pretty sure this means aliens are real.

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Ok so ‘cosmic dagger’ may not be the official term Egyptologist are using but they probably should because it’s accurate. Egyptian and Italian researchers have used x-ray analysis to uncover new evidence that a dagger wrapped up with the mummified teenage king was most likely crafted from extraterrestrial iron ore. As in it the iron was mined from a fallen meteorite!

Think about that for a second. This was 3,300 years ago. Most of us have trouble correctly assembling a Kinder surprise let alone hammering out a kingly dagger that’s fit for the afterlife.

Cosmic-dagger

It’s especially impressive when you consider King Tut’s team of metalworkers would’ve only really had experience working with bronze, copper and gold so using iron, for them, would’ve been like buttering toasts with really hard butter (times a thousand).

Still, the poor guy probably needed all the cosmic daggers he could get. He may’ve been was worshipped as a god but he also had a club foot (and had to marry his half-sister) so it’s all relative.

King-Tut

It would be unscientific to conflate these new findings as categorical proof that the Stargate is real. But, in any case, we’re just going leave this here.

 

h/t The Guardian