<story><title>King Tut&apos;s dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/king-tut-dagger-1.3610539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theophrastus</author><text>The bronze age in that part of the world was around 3300 to 1200BC. Tutankhamen ruled from 1332 to 1323. From that alone we might suppose why a bit of proper iron was more valuable than gold.  (the Hittite secret of iron wasn&amp;#x27;t for another 275 years despite Mika Waltari&amp;#x27;s poignant novel &amp;quot;The Egyptian&amp;quot; which had the Hittites flashing their iron about the court of King Tut)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptaipale</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;Hittite secret of iron wasn&amp;#x27;t for another 275 years despite Mika Waltari&amp;#x27;s poignant novel &amp;quot;The Egyptian&amp;quot; which had the Hittites flashing their iron about the court of King Tut&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think several sources are saying  that Hittites had some iron artifacts already around 1800 BC and had iron works in 1380 BC?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t recall that scene from the book, but anyway, Waltari wrote it during WW II  using just library sources in Helsinki; he never set foot in Egypt. (He said &amp;quot;I have lived in Egypt although I&amp;#x27;ve never been there.&amp;quot;)</text></comment>
<story><title>King Tut&apos;s dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/king-tut-dagger-1.3610539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theophrastus</author><text>The bronze age in that part of the world was around 3300 to 1200BC. Tutankhamen ruled from 1332 to 1323. From that alone we might suppose why a bit of proper iron was more valuable than gold.  (the Hittite secret of iron wasn&amp;#x27;t for another 275 years despite Mika Waltari&amp;#x27;s poignant novel &amp;quot;The Egyptian&amp;quot; which had the Hittites flashing their iron about the court of King Tut)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xufi</author><text>Interesting I didnt know that at all. Your &amp;quot;proper iron was more valuable&amp;quot; comment  reminds me of about a little different period  from a documentary that I watched that talked about the time around 700BC  where Umayyad empires used silver coins while gold and copper coins were used in Egypt&amp;#x2F;Syria.</text></comment>