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Tut's gem hints at space impact
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Tut's gem hints at space impact
Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, July 20, 2006 - 02:00 PM
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? Sky of fire An Austrian astrochemist Christian Koeberl had established that the glass had been formed at a temperature so hot that there could be only one known cause: a meteorite impacting with Earth. And yet there were no signs of an impact crater, even in satellite images.
Read the complete article: BBC
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Re: Tut's gem hints at space impact
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by Sweetfern on Jul 22, 2006 - 04:50 PM
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Now this is interesting!
The ancient Eygptians must have had some knowledge of that piece of glass - it is such a prominent "gem" in that necklace.
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