Do you know how they worked the meteoritic iron? Clearly, from Tutankhamen’s famous dagger, they were very good at it.
A famous case of exploitation of meteoritic iron is the Cape York meteorites in Greenland, which were used for many centuries by the Inuit people as a source of tool material. The most-used block had a pile of tonnes of basalt hammer stones beside it, brought from elsewhere for the purpose of shaping the iron.
Robert Peary, famous polar explorer and asshole, persuaded the Inuit to show him the location of the three large pieces of iron meteorite. He then stole them and took them back to New York where he sold them for the equivalent of 1.3 million dollars in today’s money.
