This Chinese invention so entranced Roman elites ... rambling the Silk Road. I imagine the marble lions outside the New York Public Library preserved one day as artifacts under glass, much like ...

Researchers have concluded that glass beads excavated from the tomb of a king in Fukuoka Prefecture were likely brought to Japan through the ancient Silk Road trade route network. A group of ...

A previously undiscovered road, about 50-feet wide and constructed ... chief among them the impurities in Roman glassware, which contains iron that causes a green hue. The artifacts also became ...