A piece of Roman Glass Jewelry is more than just a pretty thing to wear, it is a piece of history and a link to the ancient world. This jewelry is created from artifacts that were created centuries ago by skilled artisans. Once lost and then rediscovered, these glass fragments have found new life as wearable art.

Glass is such a common material in modern life, few people stop to think about how it is made. Like the smelting of ore into refined metals, glassmaking is a technology that slowly changed the world as it developed. Although the art of creating glass from raw materials was first developed in ancient Mesopotamia in 3500 B.C, it wasn't common until the artisans of the Roman Empire discovered glass blowing. Prior to this period, glass was often worked like stone or metal, and cast-glass objects were heavy and thick. Blown glass objects require significantly less material to create, making them cheaper and also faster to produce. Over two thousand years ago, glass started...