Too cool!

[Jim McDougall]

Mark, the scope of your interests and discoveries never ceases to amaze me!!
It does seem to me that this idea of the Tut dagger being made of meteoric iron has been around a long time. What is really neat about these new scientific findings is that they have been able to narrow down forensically the metal to a site in Libya and the meteorite it came from!

Meteoric iron is of course well known in Java with the keris, and there are some swords from ancient China known to be from meteoric metals. The concept of metal from the heavens is even known in American folklore, as one of the early writers on the fabled Bowie knife claimed in his book "The Iron Mistress" that Bowies knife was fashioned from meteorite iron.

We once in our travels went to the huge crater in Winslow Arizona where the most remarkable physical evidence remains. In the museum there they have examples of meteoric iron that you can actually hold.....and this stuff is heavy!!!