• The Lycurgus Cup has been housed in the British Museum since 1958. Ancient nanotechnology that works But how does it work?
  • Image copyright the British Museum, released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. According to legend, Lycurgus banned the Cult of Dionysus from his lands.
  • Download scientific diagram | Lycurgus Cup from the British Museum a without and b under illumination.
  • Lycurgus Cup. This Week in London – Sutton Hoo rediscovered; The Sixties at Tower Bridge; and, the British Library celebrates spring…
  • This magnificent glass cage cup is is decorated with scenes from the myth of Lycurgus, a king from Thrace. Lycurgus attacked Dionysos, the Greek god of wine...
  • It has been described as “the most spectacular glass of the period, fittingly decorated, which we know to have existed” - Lycurgus Cup - Roman cage cup...
  • British Museum. @britishmuseum. The Lycurgus Cup is the only complete example of colour-changing dichroic glass from ancient Rome.
  • Discover the remarkable Lycurgus Cup from Ancient Rome and learn about how advanced technologies of the past can be lost to history.
  • This extraordinary cup was probably made in Rome in the 4th century AD. ... British Museum website.
  • British Museum Research Laboratory File 1144, letter dated 20.11.62. Brill R.H. (dy1965) ‘The chemistry of the Lycurgus Cup’,Proc 7th Internat.