Julian
06-23-2005, 08:21 AM
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/22/healthscience/snglass.php
... definitive evidence of the earliest glass production long eluded archaeologists. They had found scatterings of glassware throughout the Middle East as early as the 16th century B.C. and workshops where artisans fashioned glass into finished objects, but they had never found an ancient factory where they were convinced that glass had been made from its raw materials.
Two archaeologists now report finding such a factory in the ruins of an Egyptian industrial complex from the time of Ramses the Great. The well-known site, Qantir-Piramesses, in the eastern Nile delta, flourished in the 13th century B.C. as a northern capital of the pharaohs.
Um.. I can't remember if we were already talking about this or something related recently.
... definitive evidence of the earliest glass production long eluded archaeologists. They had found scatterings of glassware throughout the Middle East as early as the 16th century B.C. and workshops where artisans fashioned glass into finished objects, but they had never found an ancient factory where they were convinced that glass had been made from its raw materials.
Two archaeologists now report finding such a factory in the ruins of an Egyptian industrial complex from the time of Ramses the Great. The well-known site, Qantir-Piramesses, in the eastern Nile delta, flourished in the 13th century B.C. as a northern capital of the pharaohs.
Um.. I can't remember if we were already talking about this or something related recently.