Over 4000 years ago, an early culture built terraces using 1000 tons of imported white stone on the pyramid-shaped promontory attached to the Greek island of Keros. Beneath these terraces, archaeologists have discovered man-made drainage tunnels and two workshops with evidence of metalworking. The drainage tunnels are evidence of complex engineering that is more than 1000 years earlier than the indoor plumbing of the Minoans on the island of Crete. New finds related to the inhabitants' proficiency in metalworking were also unearthed. These include a lead axe, a mold for copper daggers, and pieces of other metalworking equipment, such as a pair of bellows. An intact clay oven was also found, which archaeologists hope to excavate in the coming year. The discovery of such sophisticated metalwork suggests that the people of Keros were using innovative technology for that time period. The Bible also describes metalworking early in mankind's history, with Tubal-Cain being described as one who "forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron" (Gn 4:22).
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- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/18/complex-engineering-and-metal-work-discovered-beneath-ancient-greek-pyramid
- https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/archaeologists-uncover-advanced-greek-plumbing-metalwork-keros-spd/
- http://www.newsweek.com/metalworking-system-including-bronze-age-weapons-discovered-784730