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"Though iron was known to have been extracted from ores by prehistoric man and used by the Egyptians nine thousand years ago, archeologists date the beginning of the Iron Age about 1200 B.C., the time when early peoples learned to use it."
-Meilach, Dona. Decorative & Sculptural Ironwork. Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1999.

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