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Glass in Sub-Saharan Africa mostly consists of the importation of glass beads shipped primarily from the Middle East and India as early as 200-300 AD; later, from Portugal, the Netherlands, and Venice. Due to various differences in cultural histories and environmental resources, West African nations developed glass traditions distinct from ...
Libyan desert glass A large sample with mass 26 kg. Exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris in 2018.. Libyan desert glass or Great Sand Sea glass is an impactite, made mostly of lechatelierite, [1] found in areas in the eastern Sahara, in the deserts of eastern Libya and western Egypt.
Glass beads in Sub-Saharan Africa were used as an economic tool, denoting wealth and political power. Yoruba kings, or Obas, often encouraged complicated and abundant glass beadworking as a visual symbol of their nation's wealth. [1] Production of beads in great quantities could also be offered by Obas to various deities as a symbol of ...
Easiest route. From Gauteng or Pretoria. The Witwatersrand ( UK: / wɪtˈwɔːtərzrænd, - rɑːnd /, US also / ˈwɪtwɔːtərz -/; [ 1] Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˌvətˌvɑːtəɾsˈɾant]; locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a 56-kilometre-long (35 mi), north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion ...
Ancient glass trade. A Hellenistic glass amphora excavated from Olbia, Sardinia, dated to the 2nd century BC. The ways in which glass was exchanged throughout ancient times is intimately related to its production and is a stepping stone to learning about the economies and interactions of ancient societies. Because of its nature it can be shaped ...
The history of glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago in Mesopotamia. However, most writers claim that they may have been producing copies of glass objects from Egypt. [ 1] Other archaeological evidence suggests that the first true glass was made in coastal north Syria, Mesopotamia or Egypt. [ 2]
Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...
A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate and two parts of the African Plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...