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The Lycurgus Cup, which changes color when lit from behind, Roman Empire, 4th century AD
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This was a fascinating article, thanks for sharing it! I actually got into stained glass really heavily recently and that's something I've run into and actually have used at this point: dichroic glass. What an interesting and beautiful effect! It's absolutely wild to see these mfs all the way back that far in history figuring out how to make this stuff. To the common person back then, it would have appeared to be some sort of wizardry i would think. Hell, i can't help but think that stuff still looks like wizardry today, lol.