Egypt
- New Meteorite Impact Site Discovered
Science Daily A 2008 Google Earth search led to the discovery of Kamil crater, one of the best-preserved meteorite impact sites ever found. Earlier this year, a gritty, sand-blown expedition reached the site deep in the Egyptian desert to collect iron...
- 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...
- Early Egyptian Glass Making
http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/global/story.asp?s=3483426&ClientType=Printable "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...
Egypt
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 glass—known locally as Dakhla glass—represents the first clear evidence of a meteorite striking an area populated by humans.
At the time of the impact, the Dakhla Oasis, located in the western part of modern-day Egypt, resembled the African savanna and was inhabited by early humans, according to archaeological evidence"
The glass—known locally as Dakhla glass—represents the first clear evidence of a meteorite striking an area populated by humans.
At the time of the impact, the Dakhla Oasis, located in the western part of modern-day Egypt, resembled the African savanna and was inhabited by early humans, according to archaeological evidence"
- New Meteorite Impact Site Discovered
Science Daily A 2008 Google Earth search led to the discovery of Kamil crater, one of the best-preserved meteorite impact sites ever found. Earlier this year, a gritty, sand-blown expedition reached the site deep in the Egyptian desert to collect iron...
- 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...
- Early Egyptian Glass Making
http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/global/story.asp?s=3483426&ClientType=Printable "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...