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 ...

"It was a fragment of Roman glass recovered near the ancient city of Aquileia Italy." Arianna Traviglia, director of the Center, said her team referred to it affectionately as the 'wow glass'.

Analysis of the microscopic structure of an ancient shard of Roman glass has revealed how photonic crystals form, and might enable them to be grown. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The artifact, and others found in alongside it, indicate that the owner was “a prominent individual of her time.” ...

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A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman ... Like its more famous neighbor, Pompeii, this ancient Roman town was destroyed when Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 AD.

the personification of ancient Rome. It’s the first known artifact of its kind. “Golden glass is already a very rare finding, but this has no comparison,” Simona Morretta, an archaeologist ...