A blue mystery: Pale blue on New Kingdom pottery may have come from desert oasis mineral
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 12:35
in Earth & Climate
Jennifer Smith, PhD, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was belly crawling her way to the end of a long, narrow tunnel carved in the rock at a desert oasis by Egyptians who lived in the time of the pharaohs.