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.
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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.
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| 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
Thursday, September 19, 2019
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