Increasing numbers of non-meteoritic, smelted iron objects …
Years: 1485BCE - 1342BCE
Increasing numbers of non-meteoritic, smelted iron objects appear in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Egypt after 1500 BCE.
Iron objects from the Bronze Age, although found all across the Eastern Mediterranean, are statistically insignificant compared to the quantity of bronze objects during this time.
Groups
- Anatolia, archaic
- Ashur, or “Assyria, (Old) Kingdom of”
- Egypt (Ancient), New Kingdom of
- Babylonian Kingdom of the Kassites
- Mitanni (Hanigalbat), Kingdom of
- Hittites (Middle) Kingdom of the
- Arzawa
- Hittites (Hittite Empire), (New) Kingdom of the
- Assyria, (Middle) Kingdom of
