Around 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, glass vessels, once holding wine, water, or fragrances, tumbled and shattered on the streets. Over the centuries, these shards were buried under layers of earth ...

LONDON - While the Roman Empire flourished over a thousand years ago, it seems its citizens dealt with problems all too common today. British archeologists have discovered ancient artifacts including ...

A small pit filled with ancient Roman jewelry that dates back nearly 2,000 years to a violent riot that occurred around A.D. 61 was unearthed beneath a London-area department store, according to a ...

A thrift store in Canada was selling a collection of antique rings and medallions for about 20 US dollars when it learned the jewelry was from ancient times.

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 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 ...

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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 ...

The ancient Roman glass industry was divided into two categories: glass making and glass working (1). Roman glassmaking workshops, which have been found through the Roman Empire, as well as in the ...