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In the book: "A Short History of Chemistry" by J.R. Partington, Dover Publications, 1987, indicates on page 8:"Actual specimens of zinc were found on the Island of Rhodes (500 B.C.), in Athens (4 to 2 centuries B.C. and elsewhere in Europe." Other references have indicated that zinc was not availabe in its pure form until around the 1500th century. Is there any evidence that the ancient Egyptians, anytime before 1200 B.C., had, used, or imported metallic zinc? Ken