Glass Work

Glass is a compound mixture of alkaline silicates and alkaline earth, which are mixed with brates and aluminates. These mixtures are non-crystallized and in the form of a solid solution, amorphous and transparent, and become pasty due to heat.
The people of Mesopotamia in ancient times and the lands around it had the first experiences of glassmaking. The art of glassmaking was transferred from Nineveh to ancient Iran and from Egypt to ancient Greece. Then, Iran became the pole of glassmaking in the east and the Greek civilization became the pole in the west.
The glass containers found in the Persepolis area show that most of them got their design and shape from embossed metal containers. In the Achaemenid period, delicate glass was shaped using the blowing method (blowing air into molten glass), and thick glass was shaped by mold blowing (blowing the melt in a mold). During the Sasanian era, glass cutting reached its peak and Sasanian cut glass containers were exported to the east and west of the world.