Interesting item. In Neal Stephenson’s “Baroque Cycle” (I think the second book but I"m unsure) he makes the point that it was actually made in India, but was named Damascus steel because that was the closest place to Europe where it could be obtained. Wikipedia says that steel ingots called “wootz steel” were shipped from India to the Near East, where it was used in the production of Damascus steel blades.
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