A museum visit sparked a revelation when a Roman glass cup was turned around and its overlooked markings came into focus.

This beautiful translucent dish belonged to a wealthy East Londoner living in Roman Britain 1,700 years ago. The rare 'millefiori' bowl - meaning 'one thousand flowers' was unearthed by archaeologists ...

In a quiet gallery, a single turn of a Roman glass cup has rewritten what historians thought they knew about one of antiquity’s most dazzling crafts. Hidden for roughly 1,500 years in plain sight, a ...

In 2017, a master’s student dug up a small piece of blue-green glass with a fish scale pattern on it during excavations at the Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire, one of the grandest Roman-era ...

An extremely rare piece of glass has been identified as a 1,800-year-old fish bottle after two years of analysis by experts from around the world. The small piece of patterned green glass was found at ...

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Archeologists have discovered an exquisite Roman polychrome millefiori dish in East London, U.K. The dish is made up of hundreds of indented glass petals (the term millefiori means simply "a thousand ...

The people of the Roman Empire were a mix of many different cultures, religions, and societies. They enjoyed varying economic statuses and took advantage of the extensive trade network throughout the ...

When a rare Roman glass vase emerged in 2009, it was big news in the art world – until the vessel vanished. Alastair Sooke uncovers a fascinating story. Of all the strange and surprising objects to ...

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 ...