1. King Tut's Other-Worldly Dagger

X-Ray analysis of this beautiful dagger, belonging to and buried beside the boy king, reveals its make-up to be mostly iron with nickel and cobalt. This combination proved to researchers that it must have originated in outer-space, from an iron-meteorite. This has been linked to the knowledge that Ancient Egyptians (around the time of King Tut, c.1300 BC) began using a hieroglyphic - the priestly writing system - which meant 'iron of the sky.'



Pictured below is the actual quarry where some of these stones came from, Craig Rhos-y-felin. This is around 140 miles from Stonhenge's location in Wiltshire. Yet using a sycamore sleigh, members of a team of UCL researches in England, were able in a group of 10 to drag a similar stone along timbers laid down.


Perhaps dating back 12-15,000 years old these images of horses, buffalo, goats and deer really get me wondering: Why did mankind draw these animals? Why did they hide them so deep in the belly of the earth? Perhaps, it is said, they were some kind of ritual meeting place: therefore the site has been named a 'sanctuary' by archaeologists.
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