Egypt
ABC Science (Dani Cooper)
- Making Ancient Egyptian Faience
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) With photos. Yesterday, I joined a team from the Caer Alyn Archaeological Heritage Project (CAAHP) as they attempted to recreate the ancient Egyptian art of faience production. Faience is a glazed non-clay...
- Online Article - Egyptian Faience
Article Study Introduction From the inception of faience in the archaeological record of Ancient Egypt, the elected colors of the glazes varied within an array of blue-green hues. Glazed in these colours, faience was perceived as substitute for blue-green...
- Photo For Today - Faience Bead Dress (petrie Museum)
Museum number - UC17743 Part of network dress of blue and black faience beads mostly cylinder and two blue and black faience breast 'caps', also quantity loose beads, and two strings of Mitra beads, probably part of the original dress. Dynasty...
- Informal Book Review - Egyptian Faience And Glass
I brought a number of Shire Publications books away with me. They can be read in a couple of hours (they average about 64 pages long), are written by some excellent authors and stuff a lot of useful information into a digestible package. Most of them...
- Daily Photo - Clothing From The Petrie Museum
The daily photo slot is hearby resumed, with my thanks to the Petrie who gave me the go-ahead to use their online database to make sure that I have sufficient material to update the blog with photographs on a daily basis. Thankfully, their descriptions...
Egypt
Synchrotron probes Egyptian beads
ABC Science (Dani Cooper)
Not content with managing the household it appears women in Ancient Egypt were also keeping the budget in the black with some home-based manufacturing.
That is the conclusion an Australian team has drawn by using synchrotrons to analyse the synthetic turquoise that was popular during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten around 1300BC.
Archaeologist Dr Mark Eccleston will outline his findings at the Melbourne Museum in a lecture tomorrow as part of National Archaeology Week.
Eccleston says Egyptian 'faience', a fine-glazed quartz ceramic of distinct turquoise colour, was a common material used in items ranging from simple beads to religious artefacts.
He says while it was known that larger factories were used to produce the faience, his research has shown less prestigious pieces could also have been produced in ovens in household courtyards.
- Making Ancient Egyptian Faience
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) With photos. Yesterday, I joined a team from the Caer Alyn Archaeological Heritage Project (CAAHP) as they attempted to recreate the ancient Egyptian art of faience production. Faience is a glazed non-clay...
- Online Article - Egyptian Faience
Article Study Introduction From the inception of faience in the archaeological record of Ancient Egypt, the elected colors of the glazes varied within an array of blue-green hues. Glazed in these colours, faience was perceived as substitute for blue-green...
- Photo For Today - Faience Bead Dress (petrie Museum)
Museum number - UC17743 Part of network dress of blue and black faience beads mostly cylinder and two blue and black faience breast 'caps', also quantity loose beads, and two strings of Mitra beads, probably part of the original dress. Dynasty...
- Informal Book Review - Egyptian Faience And Glass
I brought a number of Shire Publications books away with me. They can be read in a couple of hours (they average about 64 pages long), are written by some excellent authors and stuff a lot of useful information into a digestible package. Most of them...
- Daily Photo - Clothing From The Petrie Museum
The daily photo slot is hearby resumed, with my thanks to the Petrie who gave me the go-ahead to use their online database to make sure that I have sufficient material to update the blog with photographs on a daily basis. Thankfully, their descriptions...