The first invention of ironsmithing is ascribed…

1629 BCE to 1486 BCE

The first invention of ironsmithing is ascribed by Classical authors to such peoples of the Caucasus and eastern Anatolia as the Khaldi (Chaldei) and the Khalib (Chalybes), who had discovered that the rather soft wrought iron could be greatly hardened by heating it in charcoal.

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Trebizond > Trabzon > Trapezus Trabzon Turkey View →

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Anatolia, archaic View → Hittites (Hittite Empire), (New) Kingdom of the View →

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Subboreal Period View → Bronze Age China View →

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