When did Egypt start to use metal?

Question

Hey got home can you help me!!! ( and by the way when i say metal i dont mean gold)

Answer 1

Since the days of the Pharaohs..    

Answer 2

metal in egypt:

1-Copper was the most common metal for everyday use in ancient Egypt. Copper in Egypt often contained natural arsenic. Therefore it was particularly hard. Copper ores were mined and melted in the eastern desert and in Sinai.

2-Silver was already used as early as Naqada II, but there is no evidence that the Egyptians themselves mined silver. From ancient records it is thought that silver was imported from Mesopotamia, Crete and Cyprus.

3-Bronze is a copper - tin alloy. When the two metals are alloyed there is a high increase in hardness and sharpness of the metal. The melting temperature is 1,005 ° C (copper alone is 1,083 ° C). There are already some bronze objects known from the Second Dynasty (Spencer 1980: 88). There are also several well-known bronze objects from the Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC). However bronze is in common use only from the New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC) on. Copper reminded an important metal alongside bronze; it is not safe to identify a metal as a particular copper alloy by visual inspection or by date - laboratory analysis is needed.

4-Iron was a metal of mythical character. It was called the 'metal of heaven', because Egyptians knew it mainly from meteoric iron. Iron deposits in Egypt were not worked before the Late or Greco-Roman periods.The earliest iron smelting places in Egypt were found at Naukratis and Defenna.

Early iron comes highly likely from meteoric iron. Iron production requires temperatures from 1100-1150 ºC (the same as for copper smelting). Iron objects appear very sporadically since Naqada III in Egypt. In Egypt iron comes into common usage only from about 500 BC. The normal way to treat iron is to hammer it. Cast iron was not common.

5-Native gold was used for jewellery as early as Naqada II. From at least the Old Kingdom the Egyptians exploited mines in the eastern deserts. From the Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC) on the gold deposits of Lower Nubia were exploited.