"Is this glass?" Yang Jing looked at the box full of crystals that reflected a pale yellow-green light under the light. He identified them for a long time before muttering to himself uncertainly.
Looking at the glassy crystal in his hand with obvious small black spots and dark stripes inside, as well as the wavy continuous finger-pinching marks on the surface, Yang Jing finally remembered a report he had seen a long time ago, in which the introduction of the Libyan golden glass meteorite was like this.
The discovery of the Libyan golden glass meteorite is directly related to a famous tomb in the world, which is the tomb of Tutankhamun, the twelfth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty during the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.
Tutankhamun is widely known to modern Westerners because his tomb had never been robbed for three thousand years. It was not until 1922 that his tomb was discovered by British explorer Howard Carter with the support of Count Karl von der Leyen, and a large number of treasures were excavated, shocking the Western world.
In particular, there is a mysterious spell engraved on the entrance of Tutankhamun's tomb. Coincidentally, the first few people who entered the tomb died early due to various reasons. The media at the time hyped it up as the "Pharaoh's Curse", making Tutankhamun's name more well-known in the West. After Tutankhamun's tomb was excavated, his life and cause of death have always been the focus of research and debate in the archaeological community, but there is no conclusion so far. Today, most of Tutankhamun's burial objects are displayed in the Cairo Museum in Egypt.
Among the countless treasures in Tutankhamun's tomb, one treasure was particularly strange: a bejeweled ornament from Tutankhamun. Archaeologists studying King Tut's tomb were puzzled by a scarab carving in the young pharaoh's bejeweled ornament. Researchers knew the scarab carving was made of glass, but they had no idea what kind of ancient Egyptian glass would match this lightweight form and mineral content.
It wasn't until 1998 that an Italian mineralogist proved that the scarab carving was made of Libyan desert glass.
This desert glass is Libyan golden meteorite glass.
Libyan Desert Glass is a natural glass composed of nearly 98% pure silica, making it the purest natural glass in the world.
Compared with ordinary artificial glass, Libyan desert glass begins to melt only when heated to 1700℃. The melting point of artificial glass ranges from 500-1400℃ due to different additives. This melting point is enough to prove the magic of this glass.
When the desert glass is heated to 500 degrees, it will not break even if it is immediately thrown into the water. It is precisely because of these extremely special properties that the Libyan desert glass has long been regarded as a creation of a mysterious power.
The composition of Libyan Desert meteorite glass is very complex. Some of it looks like foam glass, some are small spheres of quartz condensed from high-crystalline silicon at high temperatures, and most of them contain black spots or dark stripes, and some contain dark inclusions. After analyzing the glass with these different characteristics, it was confirmed that Libyan Desert meteorite glass is a byproduct of meteorite impact.
In fact, this glass is estimated to have been created when a meteorite with a diameter of about 110 meters hit the earth 29 million years ago. At that time, the meteorite hit the desert in western Libya near Egypt, creating a crater 20 times larger than the Arizona Meteor Crater in the United States, and released energy equivalent to about 110 million tons of ladders, which instantly liquefied the rocks, soil and soil on the ground, and under the action of high pressure, finally formed this extremely precious Libyan desert glass.
This kind of glass has only recently come into the public eye. Unlike the Czech meteorite which has been around for a long time and is even widely counterfeited, this mysterious desert glass is now very valuable. Its value is even higher than the same weight of gold. Therefore, it is known as the "Libyan golden meteorite glass."
This kind of glass can be called the national treasure of Libya. Normally, many people cannot even see it with their own eyes, but here, there is a whole box of it!
In order to determine the true identity of the box of crystals, Yang Jing used his identification skills to identify it, and the answer he gave was indeed "Libyan golden meteorite glass."
This is a good thing, undoubtedly a good thing. It is estimated that they collected it when Gaddafi was in power, but they didn't expect that it would be a good thing for them now.
Put it away without negotiation!
After happily putting the box of desert glass into the storage space, Yang Jing then randomly selected a second box.
After the box was opened, the golden light emanating from it flashed Yang Jing's eyes again.
gold!
To be exact, everything in this box is made of gold.
Golden mask, golden scepter, golden spear, golden helmet...
These gold products look very old, especially the two gold masks and the two gold scepters, which are full of typical ancient Egyptian style. If these gold products are real, they will definitely shock the archaeological community around the world as long as they are taken out.
Nowadays, whenever people mention the ancient Egyptian golden mask, the first thing that comes to mind is the golden mask of Tutankhamun. That golden mask is so famous that it has become the representative of the ancient Egyptian golden masks.
In fact, there are several golden masks in the world, such as the golden masks in the Mayan culture of Central and South America. But the real ancient Egyptian golden mask is only the golden mask of Tutankhamun. Of course, there may be other ancient Egyptian golden masks hidden in the hands of some collectors, but this is the only one that has been made public.
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