Tradition dictates that to properly enjoy a premium whisky you pour it from an elaborately chunky crystal decanter into an unfeasibly heavy tumbler. Weight has long been an outward signifier of ...

Some 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, glass vessels carrying wine or water, or perhaps an exotic perfumes, tumble from a table in a marketplace, and shatter to pieces on the street. As centuries ...

Buried ancient Roman glass formed substance with modern applications Researchers reveal how photonic crystals were created by corrosion and crystallization over centuries Date: September 18, 2023 ...

A fragment of organic glass formed from the brain of an individual in Herculaneum. Photo: Pier Paolo Petrone Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, swallowing the nearby Roman towns of ...

A fragment of the glass found within the skull of a college custodian in the Roman town of Herculaneum. Pier Paolo Petrone In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby ancient Roman city of ...

The glass, they suggest, was formed by a super-hot ash cloud that rapidly heated and cooled the brain in the wake of the eruption.