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History of Glass
The glass in your screen right now has a 5,500-year history.
It was discovered by accident. Hidden by empires. Monopolized by one island. Taxed by governments. And yet it quietly became the most important material in human history — and almost nobody knows its story.
In this episode of The Hidden History Project, Aiden Thomas traces glass from its accidental discovery in Mesopotamian kilns around 3,500 BCE — where sand, ash, and heat produced something nobody expected — to the anonymous craftsman around 50 BCE who changed everything with a single breath, to the forgotten Venetian glassmaker…
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