"Damascus steel actually consists of an extremely high-carbon cast steel, the best swords being forged in Iran from cakes of steel made in India and known as wootz."
— Wootz steel

January 1, 1970

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-Cyril Stanley Smith (1963) ‘Four Outstanding Metallurgical Researches In Metallurgical History’ quoted in India's legendary wootz steel: an advanced material of the ancient world by Sharada Srinivasan and Srinivasa Ranganathan, 2004