Origin of Glass
Glass manufacture originated in Egypt. The oldest known examples, from tombs of the 4th Millenium, 8.C., were merely pastes, generally of opaque-coloured glass, worked into beads and amulets. First glass vessels belong to the 18th Dynasty (15 00 8.C.).
Glass-blowing originated in the Phoenician city of Sidon about the beginning of the Christian era in the time of the Emperor Augustus. Glass was also made in Italy, France and Belgium from the 2nd to the 4th Centuries, and there were glass works of high artistic development.
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Cue (NZERS), Issue 10, 31 October 1944, Page 21
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92Origin of Glass Cue (NZERS), Issue 10, 31 October 1944, Page 21
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