Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c11.s3.7
Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c11.s3.7
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v1.c11.s3.7
At Mohenjo-Daro, some of the gold is of a very light hue and it closely resembles electrum. This might of course be due to the admixture of some other metal with the gold to harden as well as to cheapen it. The above analysis shows a very high proportion of silver and no trace of gold: which again suggests that unlike the earliest Egyptian silver, that of Mohenjo-Daro was extracted from an ore. If this was so, the people of Mohenjo-Daro, with whom must be coupled those of Harappa, had evidently considerable knowledge of metallurgy.