The history of glass-making can be traced back to 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia. However, they may have been producing second rate copies of glass objects from Egypt where this complex craft actually originated. Other archaeological evidence suggests that the first true glass was made in coastal North Syria, Mesopotamia or Egypt. The earliest known glass objects of the mid second millennium B.C. were beads, perhaps initially created as an accidental by product of metal, or during the production of faience which was a pre-glass material made by a process similar to glazing. Glass products remained a luxury until the disaster that overtook the civilizations of the late Bronze Age seemingly brought glass-making to a halt.
Yathurshika,
Grade 8,
Cambridge International
School.