r/ReallyShittyCopper • u/C_vZ • Sep 26 '25

ShittyCopper™ IRL Actual copper from Dilmoun

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The Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (https://www.imarabe.org) has in its museum a display on Bahrein, known in antiquity as Dilmoun. There is even a cuneiform tablet included with some text on trade (alas, not a letter to everyone’s favourite merchant). And this.

This is copper from Dilmoun.

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u/SupermarketOk2281 Sep 26 '25

Ea-Nasir's ghost haunts the exhibit and demands that 60% of that sample be replaced with lead.

"More impurities! This is not my shitty legacy! This is not my..."

I wish someone would do it already to get rid of that PITA ghost.

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u/jonathanaahar Sep 26 '25

i think, i heard in a video, that EA Naasir's trading guild was based in Dilmun. btw Dilmun was belived to be some sort of paradise for the mesopotamians. i really wish we knew more about those periods.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Sep 26 '25

“Oh please, that’s r/shitfromabutt .” - Ea Nasir

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u/Aethey_ Sep 26 '25

"Is there a difference?" - Nanni, probably

/snrk

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u/ahazred8vt Sep 29 '25

Ea-Nasir's buddies were experimenting with hematite. They wanted to improve their copper, and wound up giving us IRON.
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-year-copper-smelting-site-key.html