Word: ezion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excavations at Ezion-geber ("Solomon's Singapore") at the head of the eastern spur of the Red Sea have revealed "architectural, engineering and metallurgical skills which, in some respects, have hardly been excelled today." reported Archeologist Nelson Glueck. director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem. Important as a naval base and port. Ezion-geber was still more important as the greatest copper and iron smelting town of antiquity. The diggings have shown that "it was the largest single armament centre of the day, and played an exceedingly important role in furnishing arms for the tremendous...
...Ezion-geber's site shows Solomon at his wisest. He had it put at the one place where strong, steady winds from the north could fan the flames in its furnaces (whose flue-holes and air-channels utilized the principle of the blast furnace nearly 3,000 years before Bessemer), blow the smoke and fumes...
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