- 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.
- The Lycurgus Cup has been housed in the British Museum since 1958. Ancient nanotechnology that works But how does it work?
- Ever since 1958, the Lycurgus Cup is in the possession of 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...
- La Cup of Lycurgus, was acquired by British Museum years' 50. ... Source images: British Museum.
- The famous Lycurgus cup, a 4th-century Roman relic currently in the British Museum, looks green when lit from the same side as the viewer and red when backlit.
- The Lycurgus Cup is an outstanding representation of ancient technology. Roman Lycurgus Cup is a 1,600-year-old jade green Roman chalice.
- Scott, G. A Study of the Lycurgus Cup, 1995, Journal of Glass Studies (Corning), 37. Tait, Hugh (editor), Five Thousand Years of Glass, 1991, British Museum Press.
- — British Museum (@britishmuseum) March 26, 2019. Perhaps the most notable thing about the “Lycurgus Cup” is its nano-materialistic properties.
- The cup depicts the punishment of Lycurgus, a mythical king who was ensnared in vines for committing evil acts against the Greek god Dionysus.