Stunningly Preserved Ancient Roman Glassware Turns Up in a French Burial Site

Wow, I totally didn't expect them to be actually this stunningly beautiful, despite the title!

I saw souvenir glassware explicitly featured in the HBO TV series Rome, which I highly recommend btw, and that's been something stuck with me. I don't know why, but I always thought of glass as a rather modern material.

Even the handle is still intact. That would be quite a feat for one person’s lifetime. But for 2,000 years? Imagine how that glassmaker would feel if someone had told him.

As someone with a small fascination with Roman glassware, this is a super cool find! Really gorgeous pieces

It still amazes me that the Roman empire was not far from entering a large scale industrial period.

Apparently they had invented concrete and I believe they also had some sort of engine as well although I don't think it was ever built