{"id":451928,"date":"2010-03-20T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-6426610570007903539"},"modified":"2010-03-20T07:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:52:02","slug":"looking-for-the-blue-pigment-of-new-kingdom-pottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/451928","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the blue pigment of New Kingdom pottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.wustl.edu\/news\/Pages\/20426.aspx\">Washington University in St Louis<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jennifer Smith, PhD, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts &amp; Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was belly crawling her way to the end of a long, narrow tunnel. The tunnel was carved in the rock at a desert oasis by Egyptians who lived in the time of the pharaohs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was crawling along when suddenly I felt stabbed in the chest,\u201d Smith says. \u201cI looked down and saw that I was pressing against the broken end of a long bone. That freaked me out because at first I thought I was crawling over bodies, but I looked up and saw a sheep skull not too far away, so I calmed down. At least the bones weren\u2019t human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What was she doing in the tunnel?<\/p>\n<p>The answer: seeking an uncontaminated sample of a mineral that might have been the key ingredient in the blue used to decorate \u201cblue painted pottery\u201d popular among the Egyptian elite during the New Kingdom (1550-1079 BC).<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-6426610570007903539?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington University in St Louis Jennifer Smith, PhD, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts &amp; Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was belly crawling her way to the end of a long, narrow tunnel. The tunnel was carved in the rock at a desert oasis by Egyptians who lived in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}