Making Faience
(About.com) For some mysterious reason, faience--that striking turquoise colored stuff used as fake precious stones in Mesopotamia and Egypt beginning some 5500 years ago or so--has always fascinated me.
Faience tiles on Timurid dynasty (1370-1526) Shah-i-Zind
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updated 979 (Archaeology), inserted 10, updated 0, at 2012-05-31 11:16:48