Paul Craddock Janet Lang

Abstract

Further examination of the iron plate from the Great Pyramid at Gizeh failed to detect any gold as previously reported. The authors of this paper confirm the metallographic structure but suggest this can be better explained in terms of known post-medieval iron fining
technology rather than invoking unknown techniques from the remote past.

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Gizeh iron revisited. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 27(2), 57-59. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/485
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