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Asurs and the non-Aryan tradition of iron smelting

Those who like to boast about the invention of the number zero may not give much thought to Asurs as the inventors of iron. But they don’t need to, for that is what history tells us, although later, Asurs’ gift to the world became a curse to themselves

Pankaj Goyal September 4, 2017
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