Ancient Egypt King possessed glass from outer space?

Among King Tutankhamun's treasures, an eloborate necklace contains beetle shaped yellow gem dated back BC1300s. Recently, it has been understood that this is actually glass. But how could King Tut had glass is still unknown.

At extreme temperatures, like 1800 degree celcius, glass can occur and only events like atomic bomb explosions can produce such heat resulting a thin layer of glass. However, for the thickness of King Tut's beetle, power of thousands of atomic bombs are necessary. A possibility, scientists consider is, large meteor hits; but there's no proof of such hit at that time period in Egypt.

Since, there's no Earth based source for such high temperatures, scientists believe the source of the gem in King Tut's necklace is from outer space...

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