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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Foxy Brown on July 21, 2006, 05:49:36 PM

Title: Tut's gem hints at space impact
Post by: Foxy Brown on July 21, 2006, 05:49:36 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.  (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm)

Title: Tut's gem hints at space impact
Post by: JFC on July 21, 2006, 08:13:32 PM

It's ALIENS I tellz ya! :lol:

Title: Tut's gem hints at space impact
Post by: Amplifier on July 21, 2006, 08:55:44 PM

Maybe the Egyptians had been testing nuclear weapons out there, then decided to make jewerly from the glass formed? :lol: