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Interestingly enough, forge welding was widely used in the ancient world, and the Roman Empire, in particular. There's a neat graph about Roman blade forging from the same book I got this artifact from; unfortunately, it's a bit low-res, so I ended up deciding not to upload it as a post. But it feels too relevant to not post in this reply!