New analysis traces origin of gems from
Cleopatra's mines and Roman times
Cosmos Magazine, August 2, 2023
[cosmosmagazine.com]

The open access paper is:

Amal Abdelfattah Khedr, Adel A. Surour, Ahmed
El-Hussein, Mahmoud Abdelhamid; Characterization
and discrimination of some gem silicate minerals
adopting LIBS, FTIR, and Raman spectroscopic
techniques. AIP Advances 1 August 2023; 13 (8): 085101.
[doi.org]
[pubs.aip.org]

Other publications are:

Surour, A.A. and Omar, S.A., 2020. Historiography and
FTIR spectral signatures of beryl crystals from some
ancient Roman sites in the Eastern Desert of Egypt.
Environmental Earth Sciences, 79(23), p.520.
PDF - [scholar.cu.edu.eg]
Abstract - [link.springer.com]

Pérez González, J., 2019. Gems in Ancient Rome: Pliny's
Vision. Scripta Classica Israelica, 2019, vol. 38, p. 139-151.
[diposit.ub.edu]
[diposit.ub.edu]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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