Archaeologists and art historians are rethinking some of the most coveted glass treasures of the Roman world after a fresh look at their surfaces revealed what appears to be a 1,700‑year‑old maker’s ...

Archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) have discovered a number of beautiful glass artifacts underground in Nîmes in the south of France.

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 ...

Archaeologists working on the decades-long excavation of Hechingen-Stein, a Roman villa complex in southwestern Germany, have unearthed more than 100 fragments of a giant votive monument. While the ...

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 ...