Show find egypto wise men used magnifying glass london when the eyesight of egypto wise men man grew feeble from study they used magnifying tying glasses to make the stone tablets and p papyrus rolls easier to read this Is indicated by pieces of round glass from egypt one of which now ira in the collection way may data bach to the first dynasty of agypt or about 13 C that magnifying glasses were known in the famous civilization of crete about loo 11 U B 0 had been shown by two wo crystal lenses discovered in the cretan ruins |