The Origin of Glass and its Types In Ancient Mesopotamia
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https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i138.1783Keywords:
Ancient Mesopotamia, Glass, Glazed, manufactureAbstract
One of the facts that is indisputable that the human being, he does not do anything except for an urgent need, as they said: that necessity is the mother of invention. So, the ancient man deliberately exploited all the resources of nature for serve him or recruiting or re-forming it as according to his wish, in order to benefit from it in his daily life. He deliberately used stones for a very long period of his life, and then he was guided to making pottery made of clay, because it was easy to work with it, and it is better than solid stones that require very much effort in manufacturing. The ancient man discovered means and materials that could be manufactured and converted from their raw state to a new state, so that he can used it better. Among the many discoveries that man invented was glass.
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