Egypt
- 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...
- 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...
- Crater Found In Gilf Kebir
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060303_big_crater.htmlInstead of a Saturday Trivia this week (none found), here's piece about a new crater found from satellite images in the far southwest of Egypt, at the north west tip of the Gilf Kebir: "The...
Egypt
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 to be glass, but intriguingly it is older than the earliest Egyptian civilisation.
Working with Egyptian geologist Aly Barakat, they traced its origins to unexplained chunks of glass found scattered in the sand in a remote region of the Sahara Desert.
But the glass is itself a scientific enigma. How did it get to be there and who or what made it? The BBC Horizon programme has reported an extraordinary new theory linking Tutankhamun's gem with a meteor."
Working with Egyptian geologist Aly Barakat, they traced its origins to unexplained chunks of glass found scattered in the sand in a remote region of the Sahara Desert.
But the glass is itself a scientific enigma. How did it get to be there and who or what made it? The BBC Horizon programme has reported an extraordinary new theory linking Tutankhamun's gem with a meteor."
I actually managed to see this programme whilst in Wales (thanks Dad). Although there were a lot of shots of four-wheel-drives zipping over sand dunes, and most of the information actually isn't new, it was a cheerful presentation of the facts that have emerged about the green-yellow glass that litters parts of the Western Desert and was used by both prehistoric and pharaonic people to form tools and artefacts. See the above page on the BBC News website for the full story.
- 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...
- 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...
- Crater Found In Gilf Kebir
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060303_big_crater.htmlInstead of a Saturday Trivia this week (none found), here's piece about a new crater found from satellite images in the far southwest of Egypt, at the north west tip of the Gilf Kebir: "The...