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What is an ancient Egyptian craft?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Craftsmen of many kinds worked in ancient Egypt.

There were potters, carpenters, stone masons, sculptors, artists, boat-builders, makers of stone tools, glass workers, cabinet-makers, tanners and saddlers, spinners and weavers, smelters, metal-beaters and foundry-men and jewellers.

A particular form of glass-making was faience, a turquoise-coloured glass used for a wide range of beads, jewellery, amulets, statuettes, animal figures, mosaic stones, vessels and so on. It was made by fusing a mixture of silica-sand, soda, lime and copper ore malachite at a very high temperature.

Strangely, no pictures of glass manufacturing are depicted on tomb walls, although glass-making workshops have been identified in archaeological excavations.

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