All About Glass
All About Glass
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This is a full-scale model of half an Egyptian glass furnace. The original is more than 3,500 years old.
Listen as curator David Whitehouse describes an ancient Egyptian furnace. This is a full-scale model of a furnace that was used for making glass at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, nearly 3,500 years ago. The model shows half of the furnace. The lower part was constructed in a pit, with only the dome above