The Widmanstätten pattern also hints at how the meteorite was processed by the ancient Egyptians. The cross-hatched texture, ...

Forging a meteorite into a hammer is one of the toughest material challenges I’ve ever attempted. The metal reacts differently to heat, pressure, and shaping tools compared to anything made on Earth.

Today in the history of astronomy, King Tut’s tomb – including a dagger famously forged from a meteorite – is found. When archaeologists peered inside Tutankhamun’s tomb a few weeks after its ...