Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1902 — Ancient Metallurgy. [ARTICLE]

Ancient Metallurgy.

A recently published report of a French savant shows that the Chaldeans and Babylonians were possessed of considerable metallurgical skill. A Babylonian statuette was found to consist of copper alloy containing 79.5 per cent of Copper, 1.25 per cent of tin and 0.8 per cent of iron. A statuette from Chaldea, estimated to be 2,200 yean old, was composed of nearly pure copper containing only a slight proportion of Iron, whereas another Chaldean statuette, some 400 years older, consist* ed mainly of an alloy of four parts of copper with one part of lead aud a trace of sulphur.