Ancient Egyptian Industrial Complex


	Ancient Egyptian Industrial Complex

wildcat

12-15-2007 6:17 AM

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egypt, glass, archaeology, science, reconstruction

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12-15-2007 7:16 AM

dirish

It's an ancient Glass bong factory isn't it-

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Ancient Egyptians were even more inventive and productive than scholars have thought, according to new findings that depict surprisingly advanced glass-making abilities alongside an industrial complex.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/history/071214-egypt-glassmaking.html"><DIV>
The site, at <A href="http://www.livescience.com/history/070605_satellite_egypt2.html">Amarna</A>, is on the banks of the Nile and dates back to the reign of Akhenaten (1352-1336 B.C.), just a few years before the rule of <A href="http://images.livescience.com/history/071104-ap-tut-face.html">Tutankhamun</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/history/071214-egypt-glassmaking.html"><DIV>
Historians have said <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?gid=66">Egyptians of that time</A>   imported their glass. But a team led by archeologist Paul Nicholson of Cardiff University in Wales has reconstructed a 3,000-year-old glass furnace, showing that ancient Egyptian glassmaking methods were much more advanced than thought.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/history/071214-egypt-glassmaking.html"><DIV>
The researchers used local sand to produce a glass ingot from their own experimental <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=071214-egypt-kiln-02.jpg&cap=The+reconstructed+kiln%2C+in+Egypt%2C+built+by+Paul+Nicholson+of+Cardiff+University+and+Caroline+Jackson+of+Sheffield+University.+Credit:+Cardiff+University&title=Ancient+Egyptian+Industrial+Complex+Revealed&title=Ancient%20Egyptian%20Industrial%20Complex%20Revealed">reconstruction of an ancient furnace</A>  near the site.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/history/071214-egypt-glassmaking.html"><DIV>
They also discovered that the glassworks was part of an "industrial complex," as they've described it. The site contained a potter’s workshop and facilities for making blue pigment and materials used in architectural inlays. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/79AE579B-B0B2-4878-A34E-C0B1F5B97C48/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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