Gunnison Valley News | 1929-07-04 | Page 2 | Earliest use of Iron

Earliet Use of Iron sIK'dnic!is ot I run tmve been found in Assyrian and Egyptian ruins. lu 1 "e British museum there Is u piece ot 'run believed to date from about 4(1(10 i". C In the Black Pyramid ol Ahusir. t least 3000 B. C, Gaston Mnspen. found -some pieces of iron, and in thf Ijiiicral text of T. pi I (about 3 IO0 14. '.') the metal was mentioned. Tht knowledge ot In, 11 spread from the south to the north of Europe, and one Ihem-y Is that iron first oune llto us in Africa.