Last Saturday evening, I showed a professional
archaeologist friend, who is a member of ROPA*;
has worked in Egypt; and interested in meteorites,
the June issue of "Meteorite Times". As an
archaeologist, she was quite surprised and even
shocked to see pictures of Egyptian artifacts
made from Liby
Dear Keith,
I have a questionare you calling Libyan desert glass "specimens" as
we all know them, (melted fused glassy sand).are you calling these
"artifact"?
I have not seen these Libyan desert glass artifacts..just the
specimens. I have never heard them addressed as "artifac
ubject: [meteorite-list] Warning About Libyan Desert Glass Artifacts
Last Saturday evening, I showed a professional
archaeologist friend, who is a member of ROPA*;
has worked in Egypt; and interested in meteorites,
the June issue of "Meteorite Times". As an
archaeologist, she was quite
Hello Keith,
I understand what you are saying about the Libyan Desert Glass artifacts
"imported" (stolen) from Egypt. I would guess though that prehistoric man
might have carried artifacts throughout the Sahara. So if LDG artifacts were
found and sold in Libya or Morocco and exported, they would b
Hi Keith, Frank, List,
Currently, natural LDG's (i.e. not worked by prehistoric men into tools...)
are found in Egypt (I am tempted to say "exclusively" although one should
be cautious and perhaps rather say "mostly").
On the other hand, I know of some prehistoric tools made out of LDG that
were
One might also take the cynical view, that if that part of the world
looked after its antiquities better, there would be less chance for
antiquities to go missing in the first place...and it's not about lack
of money, a fence around a monument costs next to nothing..
(I've personally seen monume
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