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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
King Tut was the first Sword of the Morning. Who knew?
So the dagger wasn't smelted but hammered into shape? That's pretty crazy.
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Originally Posted by Buehler445
I took it that they could smelt metal sooner than previously thought
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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
Well first they said Egypt wasn't suspected to have developed the skills to smelt iron that early, then they say the dagger was shaped by hammer, then they say it's evidence of early iron smithing in Egypt.
It's really unclear.
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Smelting, forging and hammerforming are subsets of smithing.
Egyptians did not have the tech to reach temperatures to smelt this ore.
The earth's atmosphere smelted it as the meteorite fell to earth.
Egyptians found it and hammered it into shape.