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IN NATURE of April 18, 1931, I described the investigation of an Egyptian axe head of date 1800 B.C., supplied to mo by Mr. Guy Brunton, and showed how it was possible to reproduce it by the ordinary laboratory methods of to-day. Recently, at his request, I have examined an axe head which is many years older. It was found by Mr. Brunton last winter during his excavations at El Matmar south of Assiut in middle Egypt. Ho informs me that it can be well dated to what is known as the middle Pre-Dynastic period and early in that; that is, roughly about 4000 B.C. He adds : “I know of no other copper implements anything like as early as this with the exception of small pins and such like; consequently it has a very considerable importance.”
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CARPENTER, H. An Egyptian Axe Head of Great Antiquity. Nature 130, 625–626 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130625a0
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