Message #10832

[Qoais]

Hi Johnee
That is an excellent web site:

http://www.gizagrid.com/body_egyptian_iron.html

Personally, I kind of like the first paragraph where it says the plate was so embedded in the "masonry" they had to blast it out of the "cement".  If the "masonry" was applied like a plaster, after the blocks were put in place, they would not have had to blast the rocks out to get the plate out.  On the other hand, if the blocks were poured cement and someone stuck the plate in there when the cement was not quite set yet, that would explain them having to blast it out.

It's an excellent article on the development of iron, and I've read where altho the Egyptians didn't actually develop and use iron as early as other peoples, a knife or sword was given as a gift to one of the Pharoahs.  Once they did start using it tho, they developed it very quickly.