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| | Ancient Egyptian raw materials: metals - copper, bronze, iron, gold, silver, lead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | I have wrought thy limbs of electrum, thy bones of copper, thy organs of iron. |
 | | Until the New Kingdom most of the copper used in Egypt was seemingly mined in the eastern desert or Sinai [5]. |
 | | Electrum was worked and used similarly to gold: chariots, thrones and offering-tables were wrought with it, ceilings, roofs, columns and pyramidions covered with it, amulets, statues and jewellery fashioned from it. |
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