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- The Nimrud lens is a 3000 year old piece of rock crystal, which was unearthed by Austen Henry Layard at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud...
- Quartz lenses are known to have been used in Babylon, ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, but few have survived, and none are as old as the one at Nimrud.
- It has been regarded as an optical lens but would have been of little or no practical use. ... Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq Neo-Assyrian.
- A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Nimrud lens is 3,000-year-old object that could re-write the history of science.
- İngiliz müzesindeki nimrud lens fotoğrafı.
- One of the most prominent theories regarding the Nimrud Lens is that it was used as a magnifying glass by ancient Assyrian craftsmen or scholars.
- Whatever its origin, as ornament, as magnifying lens or part of a telescope, the Nimrud lens is the oldest lens in the world.
- The most famous among the objects identified as antique lenses is the so-called ‘Loupe of Sargon.’ ... 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrud_lens.