![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090116000245im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field King Solomon's (Copper) Mines?
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October 27, 2008
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Did the Bible's King David and his son Solomon control the copper industry in present-day southern Jordan? Though that remains an open question, the possibility is raised once again by research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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