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Tut's gem hints at space impact
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 19:09 GMT 20:09 UK
Tut's gem hints at space impact
Tutankhamun's Pectoral with desert glass scarab, Egyptian Museum (TV6/BBC)
Thing of beauty: Tutankhamun's Pectoral with desert glass scarab
Tutankhamun's gem
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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BBC article
It's easy to see how - meteoritic impact hits sand, san fuses to glass - glass used in Tut's bling bling
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