Important stages in the history of glass : the origins

Everything started in the Bronze Age when the first peoples started to settle and to create luxury and comfort items: and for this they worked with stone, ceramics and metal. At the dawn of the fifth millennium, by sheer chance, they discovered that certain mineral compositions turned into glass when subjected to the fire, and they started using these shiny and impermeable glazes as covers for stone or for pottery.

And so soon after the middle of the third millennium the first objects made completely of glass started to appear in a region which was culturally already well advanced; Mesopotamia (Iraq and Northern Syria). Very few objects have come into our possession from the time before the real revolution in this art form in the 15th century BC, which coincided with the appearance of the first vessels , made using rudimentary moulding techniques. Polychrome was the result of reconstituting glass mosaic.