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- New Artifacts To Debut In Dallas At King Tut Exhibit Opening This Fall At The Dma
Pegasus NewsFour new artifacts from King Tut’s tomb will be on display when Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs opens at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) on October 3. Marking the first stop on the exhibition's three-city U.S. encore tour...
- Natural Glass In The Desert
New Stuff (Robert Twigger) Robert Twigger, who wrote The Lost Oasis has been posting some interesting pieces on the above blog recently. This one concerns the 29 million year old glass found at the borders of Egypt and Libya (known as Libyan or silica...
- Libyan Glass
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/tr401.htm"Scientifically speaking, in order to form Silica glass, it needs to be heated at 1600¡ C for 47 days or 2000¡ C for only two minutes. Theories attempting to unravel the formation mystery of Silica glass...
- Tutankhamun Jewel Formed By Meteor Fireball
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm"In 1996 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem in the middle of one of Tutankhamun's necklaces. The jewel was tested and found...
- Tut's Necklace Shaped By Fireball
http://tinyurl.com/zsdwm (theaustralian.news.com.au)"Scientists believe they have solved the mystery surrounding a piece of rare natural glass at the centre of an elaborate necklace found among the treasures of Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh. They think...
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Cray Computer at helps discovery of Origin of glass found in Tut's Tomb
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Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that researchers running simulations on the Cray supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories have re-created what could have happened 29 million years ago when an asteroid explosion turned Saharan sand into glass. The greenish natural glass, which can still be found scattered across remote stretches of the desert, was used by an artisan in ancient Egypt to carve a scarab that decorates one of the bejeweled breastplates buried in King Tutankhamen's tomb.
- New Artifacts To Debut In Dallas At King Tut Exhibit Opening This Fall At The Dma
Pegasus NewsFour new artifacts from King Tut’s tomb will be on display when Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs opens at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) on October 3. Marking the first stop on the exhibition's three-city U.S. encore tour...
- Natural Glass In The Desert
New Stuff (Robert Twigger) Robert Twigger, who wrote The Lost Oasis has been posting some interesting pieces on the above blog recently. This one concerns the 29 million year old glass found at the borders of Egypt and Libya (known as Libyan or silica...
- Libyan Glass
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/tr401.htm"Scientifically speaking, in order to form Silica glass, it needs to be heated at 1600¡ C for 47 days or 2000¡ C for only two minutes. Theories attempting to unravel the formation mystery of Silica glass...
- Tutankhamun Jewel Formed By Meteor Fireball
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm"In 1996 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem in the middle of one of Tutankhamun's necklaces. The jewel was tested and found...
- Tut's Necklace Shaped By Fireball
http://tinyurl.com/zsdwm (theaustralian.news.com.au)"Scientists believe they have solved the mystery surrounding a piece of rare natural glass at the centre of an elaborate necklace found among the treasures of Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh. They think...