Glass-Making in the Ancient Near East explores glass composition and production from the mid-second to mid-first millennia BC, essentially the first thousand years of glass-making. Multi-element ...

Ancient Chinese glass resembles foreign glass in appearance but differs in chemical composition, which is further altered by weathering, thereby complicating the classification of artefacts. According ...

Researchers discover how molecules in ancient glass rearrange and recombine with minerals over centuries to form a patina of photonic crystals -- ordered arrangements of atoms that filter and reflect ...

Ancient furnace workers experimented with heating the ends of glass tubes to rework them. One day, someone blew into that ...

Sri Lanka, May 3 -- The Giribawa Glass Manufacturing Project is shedding light on the Sri Lanka's history of unique glassmaking tradition dating back to the 7th century. Located near Giribawa village ...

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 ...

The characterisation of ancient glass materials encompasses the study of chemical composition, microstructure and isotopic signatures in order to reconstruct raw material selection, manufacturing ...

Glass related artifacts excavated from Igbo Olokun, Ile Ife. Left: glass beads, Right: fragments of glass making crucibles. Credit: Abidemi Babatunde Babalola Glass related artifacts excavated from ...

In the hushed light of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith discovered something intriguing about ancient Roman glasswork hiding in plain sight. It was February 2023, and the Washington State University ...