The study of products copper alloys the Lomatov culture X-XI centuries from collection Cherdyn Museum revealed two types patina. first pseudomorphic might be composed intergrowths chlorides formed upon interaction with sweat hands, or a zonal rim cuprite-malachite-azurite composition, due to groundwater. second type, which distorts shape original product, is associated leaching and other metals...

In this article, we focus on the analysis of dyed textile fragments uncovered at an early Iron Age (11th-10th centuries BCE) copper smelting site during new excavations in the Timna Valley conducted by the Central Timna Valley (CTV) Project, as well as those found by the Arabah Expedition at the Hathor Temple (Site 200), dated to the Late Bronze/early Iron Ages (13th-11th centuries BCE). Analys...