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    STONE OR GLASS?


    If we decided to list all the glass things found by scientists in Egyptian tombs, we would have to compile a large catalog: vases, perfume bottles, and glass necklaces; embroideries made by bugles on clothes; colored glass which is similar to sapphires, rubies, emeralds adorning the crowns of the Egyptian lords.

    Ancient Egyptian Jewelry
    Ancient Egyptian Jewelry

     But only rich Egyptians could use these glass products. Another thing fell to the poor: half-naked, standing knee-deep in water, they got soda, dragged sandbags on their backs or crushed limestone, suffocating from caustic dust.

    Egyptian researchers hoped that exactly in this country, where there was an abundance of raw materials necessary for the manufacture of glass, and where so many ancient glass products were preserved, the description of the work of the very first glass-makers can be found.

    But years passed, tens of years and the long-awaited papyrus was not found.

    But archaeologists found something else in one of the ancient tombs. It was a small greenish pebble. It was nine millimeters long and five millimeters wide.

    Ancient Egyptian Jewelry
    Ancient Egyptian Jewelry
    Put such a pebble on the road - no one will pick it up. But this nondescript pebble from the ancient tomb attracted the attention of scientists. A controversy arose around him. Some believed that the product of one of the first glassmakers was finally found. Others laughed at this assumption.

    “The tomb in which the pebble was found is five and a half thousand years old!” - they said. “You take a piece of simple quartz as glass...”

    And chemists set to work: they soon reported that the test substance was real glass! So it was found that already five and a half thousand years ago, people knew the secret of making glass.

    Margaret
    Egyptian Glassmakers Interesting Facts about Glass
    Thursday, September 19, 2019

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