Different proportions of copper and zinc yield different properties.
The ancients weren’t so primitive as we seem to think...........
I wouldn’t want to work around a 2000-degree furnace for long.
Nearly all metals are alloys of some kind.
The ancients metallurgy was indeed primitive.
The only known metals were coper, zinc, tin, lead, mercury, iron, silver, and gold. (missing something?)
So any metal had to be an alloy of these.
It also indicates that the written histories of those times weren’t necessarily incorrect.
It would seem that more lies are promulgated in the media stream nowadays....