- 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.
- British Museum. @britishmuseum. The Lycurgus Cup is the only complete example of colour-changing dichroic glass from ancient Rome.
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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.
- Lycurgus Cup, Roman, 4th century AD, British Museum, 1958.1202.1. On loan to the Art Institute of Chicago.
- 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...
- 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.
- The British Museum is home to the Lycurgus cup, made in Rome in the 4th century AD and known as one of the oldest nanotechnology-based marvels.
- Though it measures just 15.9cm by 13.2cm, the Lycurgus Cup has been described as the most spectacular glass of its period. Housed in the British Museum...
- In the 1950s, the British Museum came into possession an ancient glass chalice called the Lycurgus Cup, so named for its depiction of Dionysus’s triumph over...