The observation of magnets has accompanied humankind for more than three thousand years, for these wondrous objects were known before the first millenium BC. In ancient Mesopotamia, iron oxides were used in weights from the late third millenium BC2. Different iron ores, including the mineral magnetite, were used in the same region to make seals (?cylinder seals?) from 2000 BC.
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