It's a big week for ostrich eggshell news. On Thursday I blogged about ancient ostrich eggshell water bottles. Now nature.com announces that a fifteenth-century ostrich egg has been found in Egypt:
Posted on December 2, 2002 02:17 PM. Filed under: history & archaeology.Archaeologists have uncovered a 500-year-old ostrich egg covered in Arabic poetry. The verses mourn the death of a loved one.
The egg was found in the Red Sea port of Quseir, Egypt. In the fifteenth century, Quseir was a hub for trade between the Middle East and India, and a stop on the pilgrim route between North Africa and Mecca. [rest of story]