[loopycode]

Aren't Damascus blades originally an Indian invention?

[_emacsomancer_]

The 'wootz' style Damascus is; Europeans didn't know it originally came from Southern India because it came through traders in Damascus.

The 'pattern-welded' Damascus is known from Europe (maybe as an attempt to replicate the 'wootz' style Damascus?) But it exists elsewhere as well.

[dingoegret]

No the steel material was dug up in India, but it was Middle Eastern blacksmiths that made it what it was.