Necklace from tomb of Tutankhamun includes a scarab beetle design using desert yellow/green glass found to be Libyan Desert Glass, or Silica Glass. (Not Chalcedony as Howard Carter had thought.) [ … ]
Tag: Egyptian
The Tomb of Sabu and the Ancient Schist ‘Bowl’
The ancient Mastaba of Sabu (Tomb 3111, c. 3100-3000 BC) was excavated by Walter B. Emery on January, 10th of 1936 at the plateau edge of North Saqqara, approximately 1.7 [ … ]
Egyptian Stone Vessel Production
The heyday of ancient Egyptian stone vessel production was the time between the late Naqada Period and the end of the Old Kingdom, when they produced large amounts of stone [ … ]
History of Egyptian Faience
Egyptian Faience is a glazed non-clay ceramic material. Whilst, as the name Egyptian Faience indicates its wide spread in Egypt, it was also found and manufactured in the rest of [ … ]