When Were Glass Cups Invented?
The Greeks, Romans and Egyptians all drank wine, as did almost all other ancient civilisations. But out of what? It turns out that vessels in the ancient world were made in large quantities and from a variety of materials, including pottery, glass, ivory, stone, wood, leather, bronze, silver and gold. In the beginning The earliest evidence of man-made glass comes in the form of beads made in Egypt and Mesopotamia in the last quarter of the third millennium B.C. The archaeological record shows that Egyptian artisans invented the technique of making glass drinking vessels using the core-forming method during the reign of King Thutmose III (1479–1425 B.C.), arguably the greatest warrior pharaoh in Egypt. By the first century BC, the Egyptians had developed the technique of glass blowing; when the Romans conquered Egypt in 27 BC, the glass then popular in Egypt was introduced to Rome and subsequently spread throughout Europe — to those who could afford it, as glass was very expensive and