An Archaeometallurgical Explanation for the Disappearance of Egyptian and Near Eastern Cobalt-Blue Glass at the end of the Late Bronze Age

A recent compositional study of Egyptian cobalt-blue glass from museum collections in Japan (18th Dynasty) and from the site of Dahshur (18th and 19th-20th Dynasties) concluded that a new source of cobalt was exploited for the later Dahshur glass, thereby suggesting that glass production continued i...

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Main Authors: Jonathan R. Wood, Hsu Yi-Ting
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2019-01-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
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Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue52/3/