Spacey Artifacts
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The religion of ancient Egypt said that when a pharaoh died, his soul ascended to the heavens to join with the god Osiris, in the modern-day constellation Orion. His tomb was filled with items he might need to help him on his way. And in the case of at least one pharaoh, some of those items probably came from the heavens.
The tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun contained thousands of artifacts. Many of them were made of gold, including a dagger buried inside his coffin. But Tut also had a second dagger, made of iron.
When Tut was buried, Egypt hadn’t started to work with iron ore, so the dagger probably was made from an iron meteorite — a space rock that fell to Earth. The iron hasn’t been tested to confirm a celestial origin. But a few years ago, scientists tested some iron beads buried 2,000 years before Tut, and confirmed that they were made from meteorites. So it seems likely that the dagger was as well.
Another artifact was an elaborate piece of jewelry known as a pectoral. Its c
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