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<p>[QUOTE="Tall Paul, post: 7654234, member: 114635"]<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/silv/hd_silv.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/silv/hd_silv.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/silv/hd_silv.htm</a>. </p><p>"Silver was used to fashion beads as early as the Predynastic Period (ca. 4400–3100 B.C.) and remained important for personal ornaments and cult objects in Egypt through Roman times. Temple inscriptions suggest that for much of Egypt’s history, silver was valued more highly than <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egold/hd_egold.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egold/hd_egold.htm" rel="nofollow">gold</a>. However, unlike gold, which is known to have been brought from the Eastern Desert and Nubia, the sources of silver are obscure, and in view of the relative scarcity of local geological resources, assuredly much was imported from neighboring lands."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tall Paul, post: 7654234, member: 114635"][URL]https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/silv/hd_silv.htm[/URL]. "Silver was used to fashion beads as early as the Predynastic Period (ca. 4400–3100 B.C.) and remained important for personal ornaments and cult objects in Egypt through Roman times. Temple inscriptions suggest that for much of Egypt’s history, silver was valued more highly than [URL='https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egold/hd_egold.htm']gold[/URL]. However, unlike gold, which is known to have been brought from the Eastern Desert and Nubia, the sources of silver are obscure, and in view of the relative scarcity of local geological resources, assuredly much was imported from neighboring lands."[/QUOTE]
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