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Aren't Damascus blades originally an Indian invention?

• _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
  The 'wootz' style Damascus is; Europeans didn't know it originally came from Southern India because it came through traders in Damascus. The 'pattern-welded' Damascus is known from Europe (maybe as an attempt to replicate the 'wootz' style Damascus?) But it exists elsewhere as well.
• dingoegret 8y ago
  No the steel material was dug up in India, but it was Middle Eastern blacksmiths that made it what it was.