Contact: Inga Kiderra
ikiderra@ucsd.edu
858-822-0661
University of California - San Diego
Caption: Industrial copper slag mound excavated at Khirbat en-Nahas. The building and layers above it date to the mid-9th century BCE; slag deposits below the building date to the 10th century BCE.
Credit: Photo by Thomas Levy, UC San Diego.
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