British Museum again. Stuff pinched from the Egyptians this time.
By the looks of things, that's basalt, basically glass, only a lot harder. Try that with your Black & Decker. How in the world did they manage it? No doubt there were tools and techniques; still, it is quite beyond my experience. Someone once remarked that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, a remark that, in this case, seems to miss the point. There is magic here, only it is in the human spirit that produced the artifact.
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