Christina Sarich – A 6,000-year-old amulet found in Baluchistan, Pakistan reveals that the ancients were able to use advanced metallurgy – a technology still used by NASA today to duplicate metal objects.

The evidence supporting this claim can be found in the journal Nature,

“The coexistence of two hitherto indistinguishable non-stoichiometric cuprous oxide phases is revealed in a 6,000-year-old amulet from Mehrgarh (Baluchistan, Pakistan), identified as the oldest known artefact made by lost-wax casting and providing a better understanding of this fundamental invention,” says the journal.

The amulet is a six-spoked wheel which was cast all at once. The spokes were clearly pressed on each other at the center of the wheel until a junction was obtained by superposition; the base of each spoke was attached to the support ring using the same technique.

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