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Article: EGYPT: ANCIENT GLASSWORKS FOUND IN DELTA.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 20, 2005
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British and German archaeologists have found an ancient glassworks in Egypt, believed to date back to around 1250 BC, according to a study published in Science magazine.The site, at Qantir-Piramesses on the eastern Nile Delta, suggests that Mesopotamia may not have been the sole cradle of glassmaking from raw material, say the study's authors, British archaeologist Thilo Rehren, of University College London, and German colleague Edgar Pusch, of the Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany. The artifacts 'discovered at the site suggest that raw materials quartz ...