The Great Sand Sea Desert stretches over an area of 72,000km² linking Egypt and Libya. If you find yourself in a particular part of the desert in south-east Libya and south-western parts of Egypt, you ...

Visit the right patch of desert along the border of Libya and Egypt, and you could stumble on pieces of pale yellow glass, the traces of a meteorite impact that took place 29 million years ago. That ...

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 ...

A peculiar and mysterious yellow glass can be found in the desert of Egypt and Libya. It has been known about for thousands of years and was famously used to make a scarab for the pectoral of ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Libyan desert glass (LDG) to a meteorite crash, and published their findings in the American Mineralogist. Once described as a “physical and geologic enigma,” ...

In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the untouched tomb of Tutankhamen, a minor pharaoh who ruled over Egypt almost 3,300 years ago. When Carter entered the tomb for the very first ...

A WIND-WORN lump of clear and transparent, pale yellowish-green silica-glass resembling bottle-glass from the Libyan Desert, has been presented to the Department of Minerals of the British Museum ...

Elizaveta Kovaleva receives funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Great Sand Sea Desert stretches over an area of 72,000km² linking Egypt and Libya. If you find yourself in a ...

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 ...