Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c22.s6.30

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The Bhir Mound specimen was made long before the dates of the Greek settlement in Sirkap and Alexander's invasion of Taxila. Therefore the credit of discovering zinc as a separate metal and using it for making brass goes to the Indians and not to the Greeks. Marshall wrote that "brass was known to the Greeks at least as early as the 3rd century BC, but the knowledge of it may have come from India". (chapter 4, p. 129)