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Detailed explanation-1: -The iron blade of an ornate dagger buried with Egypt’s King Tutankhamen in the 14th century B.C. likely came from a fallen meteorite, according to a new study.

Detailed explanation-2: -But the origin of the meteorite used for King Tut’s dagger remained a mystery. In June 2016, a paper compared the blade to an iron meteorite with similar proportions of iron, nickel and cobalt discovered near and named after Kharga Oasis. The dagger’s metal was presumably from the same meteor shower.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 2016, researchers from the Polytechnic University of Milan, in Italy, confirmed Tut’s dagger was truly made of a meteorite, which contained a ratio of nickel and cobalt that matched well with the composition of 11 iron-bearing meteorites analyzed in the same way.

Detailed explanation-4: -The meteorite, now called Kharga, was found in 2000, and contains a mixture of iron with 10.8 percent nickel and 0.58 percent cobalt-the same composition as the dagger. None of the ten other meteorites found in or near Egypt matched that particular composition.