Posted on 12/26/2010 9:06:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv
2000-year old textile produced by the Garamantes people of the Libyan Central Sahara.
The Tassili n’Ajjer [Algeria] : birthplace of ancient Egypt ?
Journal 3 | 04-05-08 | Phillip Coppens
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Ancient lakes of the Sahara
Innovations Report | Jan 19, 2006 | University of Reading
Posted on 01/21/2006 4:14:03 AM PST by Tyche
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Very pretty fabric!
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Sounds like they had to regress because the acquifer ran dry. Wait, the climate was changing back then too?? How is that possible?? Aren’t we always being told that only modern human industries can do that??
They liked colorful stuff, definitely, at least as much as we do. Here's something I spotted reprised in the Oct issue of BAR, originally in the 2008 issue, an article about Afghanistan:
Was the Sahara a green and jungle-like place back then?
Modern (such as it is) Libya has been building a mother of a water conduit to tap desert aquifers for coastal use. Yeah, that’ll work. No point in learning from the experiences of people for the Time of Ignorance.
Interesting... don’t think I have seen reference to clear glass back much in those days.
Whoops, forgot to ping.
Why couldn’t “modern” Libya just desalinate ocean water using their oil for the energy? Or even a large solar desalination plant like a superlarge greenhouse?
B-24 Bomber Lady Be Good. This aircraft was discovered in the Libyan Desert 16 years after it lost its way back from a World War II mission to bomb Naples, Italy on 4 April 1943. The plane was found in 1959 by an oil exploration team, miraculously preserved by the desert environment. The next year the bodies of eight of the nine crew members were recovered by Quartermaster Graves Registration personnel.
Clear glass used to be placed in ancient Syria (Aram), but it really came into its own during the Roman Empire. Sez here on the wiki-wacky that Roman glassmaking was centered on Trier, in Germany. Anyway, regardless, if you’re ever near this, go to it:
http://www.cmog.org/dynamic.aspx?id=1674
thanks
It would seem like a natural in any country with a lot of waste ground, lots of sun, and access to the sea. It would require a water to water heat exchange system so that the more briny solution that has been giving off evaporation in the heat could be freshened with less briny solution from the sea. It could run off photovoltaics and windmills (not necessarily wind-generated electricity), but fairly low-maintenance, be very low cost, and the condensation process could take place up a hill in a buried tank (actually a series of them) with no vent. It would be extravagant in size for the amount of freshwater made, but cheap as all get-out.
That’s interesting, I never knew that any of the crew was found. Thanks JPB.
Does the Italian surname Vetro mean "glassmaker"?
Oh... good ideas.
definitely not for the desert islands unless they have a compact way of doing it.
Probably where in-vitro came from too.... they made glass and their italians.... come on...
Bttt.
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