Egypt
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- 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...
- Egypt's Ancient Glass
Current World Archaeology Current World Archaeology Magazine has posted a table of contents for its current issue, which includes a paragraph describing an article on ancient Egyptian glass at Amarna: Egyptian glass is among the finest of the ancient...
- Weekly Websites - Egyptian Glass
Yet again, David Petersen has been sending me some great news items and resources on the Web. This week he has focused on Egyptian glass. Here are some of his links: Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Egyptian Glass Factory (John Noble Wilford) New...
- Egyptian Glass Formed By Meteorite Strike
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061221-egypt-glass.html"Strange specimens of natural glass found in the Egyptian desert are products of a meteorite slamming into Earth between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago, scientists have concluded. The...
- Islamic Museum Counts Its Losses
Last weeks explosion which killed 6 people and damaged the National library and the Islamic Museum claimed damages to 165 objects in the museum including the complete destruction of 74 objects made of ceramic, glass and wood. There is already a plan...
Egypt
Early Egyptian Glass Making
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"Experts say they've uncovered one of the earliest glass-making sites in ancient Egypt.
Evidence at the site in the eastern Nile Delta indicates that glass was made out of raw materials there as early as 1250 B-C. Artisans reportedly used finely crushed quartz powder that was melted with other materials inside ceramic crucibles. Those containers were then broken to get the glass out. The glass ingots then would have been sent to other workshops where they were re-melted and worked into objects. Most of this glass was red. The finding adds evidence that primary glass production was carried out at this location. The British and German researchers' findings appear in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science". This is the full article - see the journal Science for more, if you have access to it either online or in the print version. The online version (available by subscription only) is at:
Evidence at the site in the eastern Nile Delta indicates that glass was made out of raw materials there as early as 1250 B-C. Artisans reportedly used finely crushed quartz powder that was melted with other materials inside ceramic crucibles. Those containers were then broken to get the glass out. The glass ingots then would have been sent to other workshops where they were re-melted and worked into objects. Most of this glass was red. The finding adds evidence that primary glass production was carried out at this location. The British and German researchers' findings appear in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science". This is the full article - see the journal Science for more, if you have access to it either online or in the print version. The online version (available by subscription only) is at:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/308/5729/1750
A National Geographic article on the subject, with a photo of a glass mould is at
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0616_050616_egyptglass.html
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- 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...
- Egypt's Ancient Glass
Current World Archaeology Current World Archaeology Magazine has posted a table of contents for its current issue, which includes a paragraph describing an article on ancient Egyptian glass at Amarna: Egyptian glass is among the finest of the ancient...
- Weekly Websites - Egyptian Glass
Yet again, David Petersen has been sending me some great news items and resources on the Web. This week he has focused on Egyptian glass. Here are some of his links: Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Egyptian Glass Factory (John Noble Wilford) New...
- Egyptian Glass Formed By Meteorite Strike
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061221-egypt-glass.html"Strange specimens of natural glass found in the Egyptian desert are products of a meteorite slamming into Earth between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago, scientists have concluded. The...
- Islamic Museum Counts Its Losses
Last weeks explosion which killed 6 people and damaged the National library and the Islamic Museum claimed damages to 165 objects in the museum including the complete destruction of 74 objects made of ceramic, glass and wood. There is already a plan...