MAS 2019 collection
MAS Exhibition 2019, "Magic Glass" Oksana Veber People had used naturally occurring glass, especially obsidian (the volcanic glass) before they learned how to make glass. Obsidian was used to produce knives, arrowheads, jewellery, and money. The ancient Roman historian Pliny suggested that Phoenician merchants had made the first glass in the region of Syria around 5000BC. But according to the archaeological evidence, the first manufactured glass was in Eastern Mesopotamia and Egypt around 3500B1
MAS Exhibition 2019, "Magic Glass" Oksana Veber
People had used naturally occurring glass, especially obsidian (the volcanic glass) before they learned how to make glass. Obsidian was used to produce knives, arrowheads, jewellery, and money.
The ancient Roman historian Pliny suggested that Phoenician merchants had made the first glass in the region of Syria around 5000BC. But according to the archaeological evidence, the first manufactured glass was in Eastern Mesopotamia and Egypt around 3500BC, and the first glass vessels were made about 1500BC in Egypt and Mesopotamia. For the next three hundred years, the glass industry was increased rapidly and then declined. In Mesopotamia, it was revived in the 700BC and in Egypt in the 500’s BC. For the next five hundred years, Egypt, Syria, and the other countries along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea were centres for glass manufacturing.
People had used naturally occurring glass, especially obsidian (the volcanic glass) before they learned how to make glass. Obsidian was used to produce knives, arrowheads, jewellery, and money.
The ancient Roman historian Pliny suggested that Phoenician merchants had made the first glass in the region of Syria around 5000BC. But according to the archaeological evidence, the first manufactured glass was in Eastern Mesopotamia and Egypt around 3500BC, and the first glass vessels were made about 1500BC in Egypt and Mesopotamia. For the next three hundred years, the glass industry was increased rapidly and then declined. In Mesopotamia, it was revived in the 700BC and in Egypt in the 500’s BC. For the next five hundred years, Egypt, Syria, and the other countries along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea were centres for glass manufacturing.
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