A copper awl is the oldest metal object unearthed to date in the Middle East. The discovery reveals that metals were exchanged across hundreds of miles in this region more than 6,000 years ago, ...

Close-up of the burial, with the belt of 1,668 beads on its pelvis. PLOS ONE, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096882 An antique copper awl, recently discovered in Israel, is claimed to be the oldest metal ...

Copper awl from Jordan Valley is oldest metal ever discovered in Middle East Archeologists: Antiquity dates back to 5th or 6th millennium, hundreds of years before metal was previously believed to be ...

A copper awl unearthed in a grave holding the corpse of a woman is the oldest metal artifact ever discovered in the Middle East. The metal tool reveals that residents of the Middle East were trading ...

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