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An important early material, obsidian, was discovered on the island of Milos.
They also continued to trade in obsidian and the local marble.
Through all his trials, darkness had always been his strength, an obsidian girder holding him to the path; now it stood to crush him and, perhaps not coincidentally, the entire Republican ticket, which his opponent's ever-clever propagandists had labeled as "Dole-Gingrich," as if he and the pumpkin-headed speaker had conspired like Jesuits to ruin the nation.
Obsidian is a hard, vitreous volcanic rock, which could be fashioned into tools for cutting and stabbing.
Cretans exhibited their skills with paint, clay, copper, bronze, and gold was highly prized and raw materials flowed in — lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, ivory from Syria, and gold, silver, and black obsidian from Anatolia.