- Lycurgus Cup, Roman, 4th century AD, British Museum, 1958.1202.1. On loan to the Art Institute of Chicago.
- One of the most impressive glass-made objects on display at the British Museum is the luxurious Roman cage cup known as the Lycurgus Cup.
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- Hence, the famous Lycurgus Cup in the British Museum proves that Romans were highly advanced and talented in science, mainly in the Nanotechnology field.
- ...Institute of Chicago’s new Greek, Roman, and Byzantine galleries, we met the Lycurgus Cup on temporary loan to the Art Institute from the British Museum.
- The Lycurgus Cup has been housed in the British Museum since 1958. Ancient nanotechnology that works But how does it work?
- The Lycurgus Cup is currently held in the collection of the British Museum in London and thousands of people each year marvel at how the cup changes color...
- The Story Behind the Cup. Lycurgus Cup is a mysterious antique from the end of the Roman period (4th Century AD).
- The Lycurgus Cup is a Roman glass cage cup now in the British Museum, but until August 2013 on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago, made of a dichroic...
- Until the Lycurgus Cup was acquired by the British Museum in the 1950’s (from the Rothschilds, meaning “red shield”), scientists had not examined it.