Copper is the first metal people learned to shape, so it should mark the start of the story.
Europe has a rich Bronze Age but almost no Copper Age before it, and the place where a long Copper Age can be seen is on the other side of the Atlantic, around Lake Superior.
Where on the face of the earth are we to find a Copper Age?
Wilde: "It is remarkable that so few antique copper implements have been found (in Europe), although a knowledge of that metal must have been the preliminary stage in the manufacture of bronze." My summary of the argument is on Three Ages of European Development: bronze seems to arrive in Europe already finished, and someone must have brought it.
That catastrophe took place somewhere about the year 9600 B.C., yet copper was not worked anywhere in the non-Atlantean world until the Middle Predynastic period in Egypt, that is about 3700 B.C., while gold was worked there only shortly before that period.
Donnelly then asks whether the copper of Europe came from America.
On Ancient Mines I list the prehistoric pollution that shows large-scale copper mining near Lake Superior, next to the Great Orme mines in Wales and the malachite of Sinai and Timna.
If the copper traveled, there must be ships.
On Minoan Civilization: Colony of Atlantis, Gavin Menzies, in his 2011 book The Lost Empire of Atlantis, writes of ingots of nearly pure copper found in a sunken Minoan ship near Thera.
In his view, copper of that quality is found only near Lake Superior in North America, so the Minoan fleet must have reached across the Atlantic.
His ships carried copper, cotton, silk indigo across the world.
Plato's Atlantis had a metal second only to gold, orichalcum, which Spence glosses as mountain copper.
On Orichalcum I follow it to the copper-zinc ingots found off Sicily in 2015.
Copper also shines in the oldest epic.
On Epic of Gilgamesh: Tablet I the reader is told to look at the wall of Uruk "which gleams like copper(?)" and to "Find the copper tablet box" that holds the story.
The Le Grand Voyage account goes further and gives the Atlanteans a lost art of tempering copper to a steel-like edge.
Oahspe uses copper as a color, not a metal, for one of its key peoples.
The I'huans were red like copper; and they were taller and stronger than any other people in all the world.
The same page quotes the Book of the Arc of Bon on Moses as "a pure I'huan, copper-colored and of great strength." Whether metal or skin, copper in these sources points to the same thing: something older than the history books admit.
For every page I tagged with copper, see the copper tag archive.
The Atlanteans in Plato use bronze, tin and copper.
Plato says the Atlanteans prized a metal called orichalc (Greek oreichalkos, "mountain copper").
Plato says Atlantis had copper.
Spanuth says Heligoland had copper too, and very pure copper.
"Spectro-analytical investigations of solid copper pieces from Heligoland have shown that it was extremely pure copper."
He argues that the Northmen of the Bronze Age could work this copper.
Heligoland copper.
No known Bronze Age object has been traced to Heligoland copper.
The copper ingots found off Heligoland date from the Middle Ages.
Menzies wrote of ingots of nearly pure copper found in a sunken Minoan ship near Thera. Because copper of this quality is found only near Lake Superior in North America, the Minoans clearly had amazing range with their fleet of ships.
Copper resonates with Venus and tin with Jupiter.
The Copper Scroll is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in the Qumran Caves
Toltec (Third Sub-Race): Copper-red, 8 feet tall, Greek-like features.
What we stand on when we stand on the ground is of course "earth" insofar as it is solid, but gold, silver, copper, and tin are also "earth." Everything of a solid material nature is "earth" from the occult point of view.
For example, Pliny the Elder in "Natural History" says: "In Cyprus, where copper was first discovered, it is also procured from another stone which is called chalcus.
In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, scholars agree it likely refers to orichalcum: "Her ears, which she had pierced, they hung with fine gold jewelry and Copper Mountain gems.
The word translates to "mountain copper," supporting Pliny's idea of exhaustion if it was a regional alloy naturally occurring.
In 2015, speculation advanced with a Greek shipwreck off Sicily containing 29 ingots of a copper-zinc alloy.
It may be the metal coating Poseidon's temple in Atlantis or just an ancient copper alloy.
Within a few days the find had attracted the attention of scientists as well as police authoriries and the corpse was hacked from the pocket of ice where it had been frozen, some considerable time before, as it turns out, for among the items the frozen man had been carrying were a copper axe and 14 arrows, and a dagger, all of apparent neolithic style.
S: What does the conduit look like? J: Two large rectangular blocks separated by about four inches and the energy that is created by the two of them being placed right next to each other is then vacuumed out and channeled into a smaller container that looks like a beehive, a cylindrical oval shape made out of metal, either copper or gold.
I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock… Genius is experience… It is the fruit of long experience in many lives.” Cayce once gave a reading for one of Ford’s executive partners, detailing his past life in the Atlantean colonies in Peru as an alchemical expert who had mastered a rare and lost art of tempering copper and iron to create a powerful alloy which he eventually used to create royal electromagnetic armor for a king in pre-dynastic Egypt, likely Plato’s and Hesiod’s “orichalcum,” which we will explore later.
Being the idea of copper-base, to some degree—hemocyanin—just as many creatures in the ocean these days on your planet have blue blood, a lot of the early Atlanteans and the Anunnaki lineage also had bluish blood and bluish-tinted skin because of the copper base that carried oxygen to their systems.
The I'huans were red like copper; and they were taller and stronger than any other people in all the world.
Physical Traits: I’huans are described as large, robust, and often dark-skinned or copper-skinned, as seen with Moses (Book of the Arc of Bon, Chapter XV).
Prophets and Leaders: Key figures like Moses, described as “a pure I'huan, copper-colored and of great strength,” emerge from this race, indicating their capacity for divine roles when guided by angels (Book of the Arc of Bon, Chapter XV).
Moses grew and became a large man, being a pure I'huan, copper-colored and of great strength.
Now will I raise up prophets amongst the I'huans, the copper-colored race.
In Egupt (Egypt), a land of 13 million, including 4 million Faithists, God sent loo’is to raise Moses. After generations, from Baksa to Amram, angels chose Yokebed to bear Moses, a large, copper-skinned I’huan. Egupt’s Sun laws enslaved Faithists, banning education and worship of Jehovih, favoring Osiris. Angels swapped Moses into Princess Leotonas’ arms, hiding his mother as nurse, to gain royal learning.
Toltec: Copper-skinned, tall, advanced rulers of Atlantis, Mexico, Peru, and early Egypt.
Minerals included gold, copper, silver, bismuth, and iron, formed by natural forces.
A captured Spaniard introduced copper knowledge.
Being the idea of copper-base, to some degree—hemocyanin—just as many creatures in the ocean these days on your planet have blue blood, a lot of the early Atlanteans and the Anunnaki lineage also had bluish blood and bluish-tinted skin because of the copper base that carried oxygen to their systems.
Wherever they went—Guatama, Jaffet’h, Shem, Ham, Yista—I told them to build mounds and walled cities with ladders, like the ancients, as proof in the kosmon era of their presence before the I’huans (copper-colored race).
After generations—from Baksa to Amram—angels chose Yokebed to bear Moses, a large, copper-skinned I’huan.
Toltecas: Administrators with copper-red skin.
The analysis revealed its composition as 85% aluminum, 10% copper, and 5% manganese.
Many of these artifacts exhibit designs and craftsmanship that are considered impossible with the tools attributed to ancient Egyptians, such as copper chisels.
Menzies wrote of ingots of nearly pure copper found in a sunken Minoan ship near Thera.
Some of these copper and tungsten artifacts are as small as 2.4 microns.
Staining Patterns:Inside the Red Pyramid, staining on the walls contains metal oxides, including iron, zinc, copper, and trace radioactive elements such as thorium.
This artifact, which contains a stone coil, copper wires, and a unique ancient insulator, is estimated to be over 20,000 years old.
The chemical analysis showed the material to be platinum, aluminum and copper--a combination never before found in the remains of the ancients and unknown to-day!
They raised cotton and made cotton goods; they probably cultivated maize, wheat, oats, barley, rye, tobacco, hemp, and flax, and possibly potatoes; they built aqueducts and practised irrigation; they were architects, sculptors, and engravers; they possessed an alphabet; they worked in tin, copper, bronze, silver, gold, and iron.
In 'its markets must have met the maize of the Mississippi Valley, the copper of Lake Superior, the gold and silver of Peru and Mexico, the spices of India, the tin of Wales and Cornwall, the bronze of Iberia, the amber of the Baltic, the wheat and barley of Greece, Italy, and Switzerland.
Compare these Phœnician coins with the following representation of a copper coin, two inches in diameter and three lines thick, found nearly a century ago by Ordonez, at the city of Guatemala.
The outside was covered with sheets of lead fastened with small copper nails.