Editing Iron Age (section)

====Egypt====
{{main|Third Intermediate Period of Egypt}}
[[File:Aflo 178168414.jpg|thumb|Sword with the name of Merneptah, Ugarit.<ref>{{Cite web |title=写真素材・ストックフォトのアフロ {{!}} Sword with the name of Merneptah, Ugarit, from the living quarters … |url=https://www.aflo.com/ja/contents/178168414 |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=写真素材・動画素材ならアフロ |language=ja}}</ref>]]

Iron metal is singularly scarce in collections of Egyptian [[antiquities]]. Bronze remained the primary material there until the conquest by the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]] in 671 BC. The explanation of this would seem to be that the relics are in most cases the paraphernalia of [[tomb]]s, the funeral vessels and vases, and iron being considered an impure metal by the [[ancient Egypt]]ian<nowiki/>s it was never used in their manufacture of these or for any religious purposes. It was attributed to Seth, the spirit of evil who according to Egyptian tradition governed the central deserts of Africa.<ref name="EB1911" />  In the [[Abusir|Black Pyramid of Abusir]], dating before 2000&nbsp;BC, [[Gaston Maspero]] found some pieces of iron. In the funeral text of [[Pepi I]], the metal is mentioned.<ref name="EB1911" /> A sword bearing the name of pharaoh [[Merneptah]] as well as a battle axe with an iron blade and gold-decorated bronze shaft were both found in the excavation of Ugarit.<ref name="cowen" /> A [[Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger|dagger with an iron blade found in Tutankhamun's tomb]], 13th century BC, was examined recently and found to be of meteoric origin.<ref>{{cite journal | title =The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade | journal =Meteoritics & Planetary Science | volume =51 | issue =7 | page =1301 | doi =10.1111/maps.12664| year =2016 | last1 =Comelli | first1 =Daniela | last2 = d'Orazio | first2 =Massimo | last3 =Folco | first3 =Luigi | last4 = El-Halwagym| first4 =Mahmud | bibcode =2016M&PS...51.1301C |display-authors= etal| doi-access =free}}  Free full text available.</ref><ref>{{cite news | last =Walsh | first = Declan | title =King Tut's Dagger Made of 'Iron From the Sky,' Researchers Say | newspaper =[[The New York Times]] | location =NYC | quote = ...the blade's composition of iron, nickel and cobalt was an approximate match for a meteorite that landed in northern Egypt. The result "strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin"... | date =2 June 2016 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/world/middleeast/king-tuts-dagger-made-of-iron-from-the-sky-researchers-say.html | access-date =4 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last =Panko | first = Ben | title =King Tut's dagger made from an ancient meteorite | newspaper =[[Science (journal)|Science]] | publisher =[[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] | date =2 June 2016 | url = https://www.science.org/content/article/king-tut-s-dagger-made-ancient-meteorite | access-date =5 June 2016}}</ref>