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, ...

A strange type of glass that was discovered in 1933 in the Libyan desert may come from a meteorite, an analysis shows, but impact crater is still missing. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Aaron J. Cavosie receives funding from the Australian Research Council for work not related to this study. In the remote desert of western Egypt, near the Libyan border, lie clues to an ancient cosmic ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Libyan desert glass (LDG) to a meteorite crash, and published their findings in the American Mineralogist. Once described as a “physical and geologic enigma,” ...

Visit the right patch of desert along the border of Libya and Egypt, and you could stumble on pieces of pale yellow glass, the traces of a meteorite impact that took place 29 million years ago. That ...

The back story of this yellow glass is truly shocking RESEARCHERS believe the intense impact of a meteorite 29 million years ago may be what formed a bizarre yellow glass that is found only in a ...

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 ...

Elizaveta Kovaleva receives funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Great Sand Sea Desert stretches over an area of 72,000km² linking Egypt and Libya. If you find yourself in a ...

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 ...