January 5, 2015

Monday Geology Picture: Ancient Egyptian Stone Jars

Posted by Evelyn Mervine

Two gorgeous ancient Egyptian stone jars on display at the British Museum.

Two ancient Egyptian stone jars on display at the British Museum.

For this week’s “Monday Geology Picture” I thought that I would share another picture that I took during my recent visit to The British Museum. This week’s picture shows two beautiful ancient Egyptian stone jars. The jar on the left is made out of limestone breccia while the jar on the right is made out of andesite porphyry.

Here’s the museum sign about the two jars:

Museum sign about the two stone jars.

Museum sign. Click to enlarge.