Why King Tut's Knife Never Rusted

King Tut's dagger is 3,000 years old and barely has any rust. The reason: for thousands of years, the only iron humans could get fell from the sky. A pharaoh was buried with a knife made of it. A whole people in the Arctic carved their tools from it. One American explorer dragged a piece of it weighing over 30 tons across the ice to New York, and one man in Oregon tried to steal 15 tons of it with a cart and a horse. This is the history of iron. Roughly. Chapters 0:00 A pharaoh's knife from outer space 0:38 Iron is everywhere in your kitchen 1:16 A world without iron 2:31 The oldest iron ever found came from space 4:15 King Tut's dagger (quick game) 5:46 The furnace and the burnt cookie 7:04 Greenland: knives from the sky 8:14 The 30-ton rock dragged to New York 9:24 The great meteorite heist 10:37 Every atom of iron was made in a star 11:17 Back to you Sources Rehren et al. (2013), Journal of Archaeological Science: the Gerzeh iron beads; Scientific American and National Geographic coverage Comelli et al. (2016), Meteoritics & Planetary Science: the meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger Chemistry World: "Tutankhamun's burial dagger is extra-terrestrial in origin" American Museum of Natural History archives: the Cape York meteorite and Robert Peary (1894–1897) Minik Wallace: biographical sources (Wikipedia and references therein) The Willamette Meteorite: Oregon DOGAMI, Oregon newspaper archives, AMNH Old Assyrian merchant texts on "amutum" (scholarly interpretation still debated) Narration, character voices and music are AI-generated. Character lines are dramatizations, not real quotes. #history #iron #meteorite