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Originally Posted by BigChiefTablet
While it's possible that it happened this way, that is a shit load of speculation about something that happened thousands of years ago to state it as fact.
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As opposed to all the firsthand knowledge we usually call on these days about 1400 BC?
They're presently fairly certain, and apparently have been for a while, that Egyptians of the era had no tech to make the alloy.
What they confirmed, what is new, is the actual composition of the alloy, through spectroscopy.
It's a man formed/shaped tool composed of an alloy that had to come from a meteorite, unless this one tiny object was ejected from the bowels of the earth somehow, or they had smelting technology they only used this one time.