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three cities or fortresses, is described in Hindu mythology as being constructed by the great Asura architect Mayasura Thuvaraiyam Pathi: In Ayyavazhi mythology, it was a sunken island some 240 km (150 miles) off the south coast of India. Trāyastriṃśa: An important world of the devas in the Buddhist cosmology. Urdhvaloka
Painting of a Copper Age walled settlement, Los Millares, Spain The Chalcolithic or Copper Age is the transitional period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. [1] It is taken to begin around the mid-5th millennium BC, and ends with the beginning of the Bronze Age proper, in the late 4th to 3rd millennium BC, depending on the region.
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Production trends in the top five copper-producing countries, 1950-2012. This is a list of countries by mined copper production. Copper ore can be exported to be smelted so that a nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production. See: List of countries by copper smelter production.
Modern archaeological and geological evidence places Magan in the area currently encompassed by Oman and the United Arab Emirates. [4] [5]In the past, historians had debated possible locations, including the region of Yemen known as Ma'in, [6] in the south of Upper Egypt, in Nubia or the Sudan, and others as part of today's Iran and Pakistan.
The city also lacked the cosmopolitan character of the island's coastal cities. It resembled an "industrial" city of mines and workshops, though it had without doubt also developed the agricultural and stock-breeding potentialities of the surrounding fertile land, enriched by one of the most important rivers of Cyprus, the Pediaios , and its ...
Empusa or Empousa (/ ɛ m ˈ p j uː s ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἔμπουσα; plural: Ἔμπουσαι Empusai) is a shape-shifting female being in Greek mythology, said to possess a single leg of copper, commanded by Hecate, whose precise nature is obscure. [2]
The archaeological site of Belovode, on Rudnik mountain in Serbia, has the world's oldest securely dated evidence of copper smelting at high temperature, from c. 5,000 BC. [4] The transition from Copper Age to Bronze Age in Europe occurred between the late 5th and the late 3rd millennium BC .