Seems that good knives have been popular for a long time....

[Rick]

How's this?

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Yeah...no.... Well, that's a start. Let's have a beer and try it again.

[randyt]

a beer.......?

[hunter63]

"I was told there would be no maff".......Brewskies?....pass one over, but are twist offs...don't need the key....

[kyratshooter]

Now the Egyptians had beer!

No problem with that concept.

I am just having to reset my historical clock and adjust the timeline by 2000 years to adjust for the new discoveries they are making. I was taught and have been teaching the development of iron in 1200bc for my whole life. Tut predates that by nearly 200 years, but what's 200 years when looking back 3 1/2 millennia?

And I have no problem with the use of meteorite iron in fabricating a knife, altogether believable.

But when you look at that blade, fully polished, beautifully designed.

The guy that made that thing knew what he was doing and had done it before.

[Winter]

I wonder how long it will be before a cutlery company offers a replica King Tut Dagger

Buster and Julie Warenski made one in the 90's. Sold for a cool million $'s.

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[WalkingTree]

But well, one thing I always thought could be said about folks from way back...is that they had lots of time. Did things by hand. Direct interaction. So surely they fiddled around a lot and said "hhmmm...what about this..." a lot. Many people probably had a lot of reasoning ability that was 'every day' to them.

[kyratshooter]

But well, one thing I always thought could be said about folks from way back...is that they had lots of time. Did things by hand. Direct interaction. So surely they fiddled around a lot and said "hhmmm...what about this..." a lot. Many people probably had a lot of reasoning ability that was 'every day' to them.

Who told you that crap?

Lots of time???

Their life span was about 30 years!

They did things by hand because all they had were hand tools!

80%-90% of the population were slaves and not exactly paid to reason things out.

The other 10%- 20% were not real worried about improving things because the slaves were doing the heavy lifting!

They viewed people like we view Harbor Freight power tools; buy them cheap, use them up and throw them away.

Most craftsmen, like the man that made Tut's dagger, were special workers kept by patrons just to make the good stuff like this for the royals. If Tut had not liked the dagger it would probably have been used to cut the slave that made it from ear to ear.