For years, there was no direct evidence of the production of glass. Somebody was making it, but the only thing we had were museums full of glass objects. |
On the second melting, the gas bubbles disappear and you can get the colors. |
The mainstream opinion was that the Egyptians were importing it from Mesopotamia. In Egypt, we had only evidence that they were making it into artistic objects. |
There were lots of bronze castings, but among all the debris we found a number of things that didn't fit, ... It took me a year or two to figure out that the unusual finds were related to glass. |
There were lots of bronze castings, but among all the debris we found a number of things that didn't fit. It took me a year or two to figure out that the unusual finds were related to glass. |