What do we leave behind? Five enigmatic discoveries in 2017steemCreated with Sketch.

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One of the two daggers discovered in Tutankhamun's tomb was made of iron obtained from a meteoritehith-king-tut-dagger-The-iron-dagger-picture-1-resized.jpg

The DNA of the natives of Papua New Guinea contains genes of an unknown human race, which today do not exist anymore
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Alchemist Henning Brand believed that he could get gold from the distilled urine. After boiling 5k liters he discovered the phosphorus

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The British have reproduced a natural remedy with garlic, described in a text from the 9th century and found it cured 90% of staph infections
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That's what a mammoth ivory discovered in the permafrost of Siberia
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