19-July-2006, 10:33 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Desert Glass Scarab
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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.
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