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Daily Mirror
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Kirsty Card & John Bett

Mystery of Tutankhamun’s technologically advanced dagger solved, claim experts

A dagger buried with King Tutankhamun was so technologically advanced that it has baffled scientists for years, but now experts believe it may have come from space.

The teenage king was buried with a pair of blades, one of which has confused scientists since its discovery by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1925.

The dagger, unrusted and made of iron, was a strange and unexplained find, as the Egyptians are thought to have started working with that metal around 500 years after King Tut's death, as the Daily Star reports.

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