Archaeologists rebuild Egypt's 3,000-year-old glass furnace
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An Egypt Exploration Society team of archaeologists, led by Cardiff University professor Paul Nicholson, has rebuilt an ancient glass furnace following the same methods used by Egyptians some 3,000 years ago.
It was previously thought that the ancient Egyptians might have imported their glass from the Near East during that time. But with reconstructing the glass furnace, the excavation team proved that the ancient Egyptians were not importing glass, rather they were making it by themselves using local sand.
Glassmaking was part of an ancient industrial complex built during the rule of Akhenaten. The site is located on the banks of the Nile at Amarna in the modern Egyptian province of Minya, some 312 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo. It also contained a potter’s workshop and facilities for making blue pigment and faience, a material used in amulets and architectural inlays.
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