Watery graves

Dark stains on our globetrotting ingots. A long way they went: mined in Cornwall, England, then locally cast into thick, A4-shaped ingots. After that, they travelled over water to the Cypriot bureaucracy that inscribed them with their script. Before they could reach their final destination, where people would have welcomed them in order to make tools and weapons, they sank, ending up on the Haifa seafloor.

The dark stains are a testimony to the ingots’ watery grave. These indicate corrosion of the metal due to three millennia of being buried in salt water.