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History of glass

  • Roman glassIn the early decades of the 1st century AD, a Roman glass drinking cup could be purchased for a single copper coin. This price point marked a radical…
  • GlassblowingIn the middle of the 1st century BC, Phoenician and Syrian craftsmen developed a technique that changed history. They blew air into molten glass to create…
  • Venetian glassGlass production in Venice began as early as 450 when glassmakers from Aquileia fled to the islands to escape barbarian invaders.