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Joek Kontinen
The Bible talks a lot about bronze, It was one of the weapons used in the Old Testament. It was also used to build The Bronze Serpent that saved the Israelites from destruction when they were bitten by real snakes.
Here is what Science magazine says about bronze;
“Bronze, which is composed of copper and tin, was a key commodity of the ancient world during the second millennium BCE and was used for weapons and everyday tools. The copper sources for bronze have long been known, but those of tin have never been identified with certainty. In a study of 105 tin ingots from the extraordinary shipwreck site of Uluburun off Turkey’s southern coast, Powell et al. found that one-third of them had their origin in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, more than 3000 kilometers away. These findings suggest that trade at multiple scales, ranging from households to political elites, contributed to a vast network, challenging previous models of centralized control of commodity trade in this era.”
But the Bible is not based on bronze age myths, It tells the stories of real people in real time,
Source;
Aldenderfer Mark. 2022. Bronze
Age trade networks of tin.- Science 3 December
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