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Re:King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms by joliya65 on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:30PM (#11833045)
Check out the documentary Secrets of the Viking Sword. Goes into great depth concerning the materials and methods used in creating the Ulfberht blades. Don't remember meteorites being mentioned though. Maybe they simply didn't mention it in this documentary.
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Re:King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms by phreeza on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:49PM (#11833174)
I think Viking swords were made hundreds of years after this, when the basics of iron production were known in most parts of the world?
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Re:King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms by colechristensen on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:35PM (#11833441)
The Vikings were around a little under 2000 years after Tutankhamun.

The Viking swords in question were early examples of steel of some surprising quality. Iron technologies had existed for 1000 years at that point around Europe.

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Re:King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms by HillaryBriss on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:41PM (#11834041)
apparently the Vikings got the steel for their swords from as far away as Central Asia and India. and that steel was critical to the superior performance of those blades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_sword

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucible_steel

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Re:King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms by aminok on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:46AM (#11840173)
The famed Ulfberht sword is believed to have used steel forged in northern Iran, and transported through the Volga trade route (that followed the Volga river into the Caspian sea):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/volga-trade.html

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Re:King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms by zipwitch on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:45PM (#11834682)
Something that is also mentioned in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Which someone already mentioned in reference to gold. In really is an amazing dive into history, even if it's not 100% accurate.
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