India’s legendary wootz steel—An advanced material of the ancient world An Advanced Meterial of the Ancient World
- 1st ed.
- Hyderabad University Press Private Limited 2014
- ix, 150p.
The book is reissued under the Universities Press–IIM series in Metallurgy and Materials Science. A fascinating history of India’s legendary high-grade steel—wootz steel—which was highly prized and much sought after across the world for over two millennia. Wootz steel was used to make the fabled Damascus blades.