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Khao Sam Kaeo (Thai: เขาสามแก้ว) is an archaeological site in Thailand's Chumphon province.It is located in Na Cha-ang subdistrict of Mueang Chumphon district, just north of the town of Chumphon, on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula, at the Kra Isthmus. [1]
Smithing process in Mediterranean environment, Valencian Museum of Ethnology. Blacksmiths work by heating pieces of wrought iron or steel until the metal becomes soft enough for shaping with hand tools, such as a hammer, an anvil and a chisel. Heating generally takes place in a forge fueled by propane, natural gas, coal, charcoal, coke, or oil.
There are scattered examples elsewhere (the Berezan' Runestone in Eastern Europe, [5] and runic graffiti on the Piraeus Lion from Greece but today in Venice, Italy). [ 6 ] The vast majority of runestones date to the Viking Age and the period immediately following the Christianisation of Scandinavia (9th to 12th centuries).
Especially areas around Tuscany and Brescia had rich iron ore veins and forests that were conducive to the creation of charcoal for high-heat iron smithing. Brescia remained an important swordsmithing and steel manufacturing hub for centuries due to the high manganese content of the local iron ore deposits, which assisted in the creation of ...
The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament sold on Wednesday for $5.04 million, more than double its high estimate. The stone, which dates back around 1,500 ...
Its openings at the end of 2024 included locations in Newport Beach and Montecito, California, and in Raleigh, North Carolina. Seven more North American galleries will open their doors in 2025.
The oldest archaeological evidence of copper mining and working was the discovery of a copper pendant in northern Iraq from 8,700 BCE. [2] The earliest substantiated and dated evidence of metalworking in the Americas was the processing of copper in Wisconsin, near Lake Michigan.
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