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[kurupetos]

Amazing!

[Lordo]

its bull and you know it. iron was invented in terggy in 1700 bm.

[kurupetos]

its bull and you know it. iron was invented in terggy in 1700 bm.

What's bm?

[Lordo]

before muhammed of course. where were educated. gavole.

[repulsewarrior]

Amazing!

...nice!

[kurupetos]

before muhammed of course. where were educated. gavole.

Who's muhammed?

[kurupetos]

Amazing!

...nice!

Indeed, RW.

[supporttheunderdog]

I am sceptical of claims that Cyprus invented iron or iron smelting. There are 49 iron items found in Greece , Crete, and Anatolia, likely dating from 1300 to 1200 bc but none in Cyprus, While further east Iron was being worked in Assyria possibly 1200 years before, in 2500 bc, while in India it was worked as far back as1800 bc. Cyprus therefore appears to be a late comer.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Haven't got time to watch such a long video, but, no one "invented" iron (except God, perhaps) as it is an element.

But, the Greeks have the most evidence for the longest time working this element and, specifically on Cyprus, as second a region among all the archaeological finds. So, as Cyprus is part of Greece, there is good correlation that in the Greek world, where iron has been worked the longest, that Cyprus could be one of the Greek regions of the earliest and greatest productions.

[supporttheunderdog]

Haven't got time to watch such a long video, but, no one "invented" iron (except God, perhaps) as it is an element.

But, the Greeks have the most evidence for the longest time working this element and, specifically on Cyprus, as second a region among all the archaeological finds. So, as Cyprus is part of Greece, there is good correlation that in the Greek world, where iron has been worked the longest, that Cyprus could be one of the Greek regions of the earliest and greatest productions.

But I have to disagree that Cyprus is a part of Greece, except as a result of conquest events, initially in the period about 1150 BC, but more significantly in the period say 330 to 300 BC, indeed up to say 1200 BC Cyprus was very much a part of the Non Greek Eastern Mediterranean Levantine/Egyptian world rather then then "Greek" Aegean based civilization, and indeed maintained many of those links through to 300 BC when the entire area was consumed by Macedonian Imperialism, probably as offensive to then then indigenous inhabitants as the latter Ottoman imperialism and when non Greek languages then spoken in Cyprus were suppressed by law. At least the Ottomans for all their faults did not do that.

Greece was however a late comer in working Iron. Lordo for all his faults is correct that there is older evidence of Iron working in Anatolia - One of the earliest smelted iron artifacts known was a dagger with an iron blade found in a Hattic tomb in Anatolia, dating from 2500 BC, while metallurgical analysis of iron fragments found at Kaman-Kalehöyük in 1994 and dating to c. 1800 BC revealed that some of these fragments were composed of carbon steel, which is the world's earliest known evidence for steel manufacture.