The Great Sand Sea Desert stretches over an area of 72,000km² linking Egypt and Libya. If you find yourself in a particular part of the desert in south-east Libya and south-western parts of Egypt, you ...

Yellow glass found in the Libyan desert is now believed to have been created by a meteorite impact 29 million years ago, ...

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A WIND-WORN lump of clear and transparent, pale yellowish-green silica-glass resembling bottle-glass from the Libyan Desert, has been presented to the Department of Minerals of the British Museum ...

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Shockwaves from a comet strike may have created a mysterious glass found only in the Great Sand Sea of Egypt. Libyan Desert Glass formed nearly 30 million years ago under high temperatures that some ...

About 29 million years ago, the sands of the western Egyptian desert melted and created tiny pieces of canary yellow glass — some of which ended up decorating King Tut's pectoral (chest ornament).

Among the treasures discovered in King Tut’s tomb is an elaborate pectoral with a central scarab carved from a canary-yellow material called Libyan Desert glass. Found in the sand dunes of Egypt’s ...

Yellow glass found in the Libyan desert is now believed to have been created by a meteorite impact 29 million years ago, though the crater remains missing. Business jet that crashed in Michigan was ...