The Outhaals of Nellumboor and the Wootz steel
'One blow of a Damascus sword would cleave a European helmet
without turning the edge or cut through a silk handkerchief drawn across it' that
was how the Damascus sword was described during the Crusades, a sword which had
a blade patterned “as though a trail of small black ants had trekked all over
the steel when it was still soft” in the words
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