Far from simple tent-dwellers, the Edomites experienced a massive technological leap in the 10th century BCE, living near what is now southern Israel and Jordan. "Our study sheds new light on the ...

Recent research by a group of Israeli scholars has shed new light on the issue ... the lead author of the study on the Edom road recently published in the academic journal Palestine Exploration ...

Perhaps these new demands were motivation enough for the Edomites to adopt new innovations. Possible changes could have included smelting copper ore at different temperatures, changing the ratio ...