Glass Art

 

The first traces of glass date back more than 3000 years BC and were discovered mainly in Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt.

At that time, the glass is not transparent. It is blue or green. The clear glass only appears in the year 100 AD.

A legend tells that the glass was discovered by natural soda merchants. By heat their food in pots on the edge of a river, they would have seen casting a then unknown substance: glass. This is of course a legend since the temperature required to make glass (1300 ° C) can not be reached with outdoor simple pot.