About 29 million years ago, the sands of the western Egyptian desert melted and created tiny pieces of canary yellow glass — some of which ended up decorating King Tut's pectoral (chest ornament).

In the remote desert of western Egypt, near the Libyan border, lie clues to an ancient cosmic cataclysm. Libyan desert glass is the name given to fragments of canary-yellow glass found scattered over ...

Ever since Heinrich Schliemann un covered the ruins of Agamemnon’s court in Greece, Germans have been among the most relentless of antiquarians. It seemed only natural, therefore, for some adventurous ...

The mysterious yellow glass of Egypt can be found for several thousands of square kilometers and has been a topic of debate for almost a century now. The canary yellow glass was famously used to ...

Aaron J. Cavosie receives funding from the Australian Research Council for work not related to this study. In the remote desert of western Egypt, near the Libyan border, lie clues to an ancient cosmic ...