[identity profile] olympiasepiriot.livejournal.com 2008-03-10 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
But there wasn't any steel in 2000 BC either. Smelted iron appears in Egypt's archaeological record about 1000 - 1500 BC, I think adn I think there was steel there, too. I'm pretty sure it crops up first anywhere in Upper Egypt. But, I don't think they used it for swords.>>looks over at bookcase, doesn't see her books on Saharan Africa and the Levant, surmises they must be packed in storage 'cause she hasn't cracked them open in about 12 years.<<