Similar weapons with smelted iron blades suggest meteoritic metal ... a possible metaphor for the womb of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut. “He will break the iron after he has split the egg ...

and his colleagues visited the weapon at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo in 2020 to find out. “A number of manufacturing processes are possible,” they wrote in a recent study in Meteoritics & Planetary ...

Archaeologists unearthed “close to 200 weapons,” a “very rare” chainmail shirt and other items from the Iron Age. Photos show a few of the half-buried artifacts, which included “lances ...

“The sheer number of weapons is astonishing, but what fascinates me most is the glimpse they provide into the societal structure and daily life of the Iron Age,” he said. Additional analysis ...

The discovery of a bronze sword inscribed with the name of Pharaoh Ramses II gives new insight into the imperial domination ...