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A new study from Tel Aviv University overturns prevailing scientific beliefs that King Solomon’s Mines not only harmed the health of workers in the ancient copper industry but also pose risks to ...

tools, c, in the Lake Superior region. In 1848 the first of these old mines was discovered, and in it was found a mass ot pure copper, weighing six tons, which had been raised by ancient wedges ...

The new study contradicts a series of papers published since the 1990s about pollution caused allegedly by the ancient copper industry. Prof. Ben-Yosef explains, "We demonstrate that this is not true.