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Pharaoh's Gem Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Tamas Feher from Hungary writes "An Italian archaeologist accidentally found that the central gem in Tutankhamun's regal necklace is not amber, but a mere piece of yellow glass. Kinda cheap for the famous Egyptian pharaoh, best known for his splendid golden mask. Except that piece of glass is much older than civilization. Where did it come from, StarGate? Kind of. Scientists now think a meteorite much larger than the Tunguska event fell from the sky and exploded over the Sahara in prehistoric times. The tremendous heat of the 1000 A-bomb sized fireball melted large chunks of desert sand into perfect glass. The memory of such an apocalyptic event may have made sand-glass gems a desirable symbol, meant to emphasize the pharaoh's heavenly powers."
That suggests to me he dropped and broke it. :)
Looks like Naquadah to me...
Don't you mean the FAARGATE!?!??
We don't vant to get sued. Just be sure it has a mohawk and a wheelchair.
Clearly you're ignoring the obvious source. Pterydactls with frickin' laser beams attached to their beaks.
It turns out that while Tut's sarcophagus initially appeared to be ordinary gold, it is in fact solid fucking gold. "Yeah, I couldn't believe it", Dr. Packenwood said, "but when we finished running all the scientific experiments on the coffin, it turned out to be 200 lbs of solid fucking gold!"
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Depends; are they African or European pterodactyls?
Man-made gems can be more ethical as well since they don't finance activities which further human suffering.
;-)
I see we have incompatible opinions on marriage...