The art of glassmaking dates back as early as the 15th century B.C.E. in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Early on, glassmakers knew how to color glass by mixing metallic oxides into the ingredients and popular ...

Ancient Roman iridescent glass dug up in Israel is now being featured in modern jewelry. One of the jewelry designers told viewers of a late night shopping channel that the thin layer of iridescence ...

CU Boulder acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and many other Native American nations. Their forced removal from these ...

Nature is the ultimate nanofabricator. The latest evidence of that is an unusual shard of ancient Roman glass (dubbed the “wow glass”) that boasts a thin, golden-hued patina. Roman glass shards are ...

Glass openwork vessel from 300-350 CE with inscription and symbol. Inscription: ΠΙΕ ΖΗCΑΙC ΚΑΛWC ΑΕΙ (Drink, may you live well always!) (photo courtesy of Hallie G. Meredith). In the hushed light of a ...

Beach combing is one of the oldest pastimes known to mankind, and within the past five years, the percentage of those sharing this passion has dramatically increased. In ancient times, beach combing ...

In a quiet museum case, a Roman glass cup that had sat in plain sight for generations has yielded a secret message that was never meant for imperial eyes. The discovery of a tiny, hidden note ...