Unraveling the Mystery of Roman Unbreakable Glass Created Thousands of Years Ago

Were the ancient Romans capable of creating flexible glass thousands of years ago, that seems too absurd an idea to be true, but there are historical records that suggest they could? Both Pliny the Elder and Petronius two of the most respected writers of the ancient world claimed that the Romans had a formula for making a bendable almost unbreakable glass.

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[misteranderson]

The emporer asked who else can make this, the inventer said just me. So the emporer had him killed. There's 2 historic references to this story.

[istvankocsis]

In case they used glass fiber and transparent resin than it's not impossible.

[wallykimball]

Couldn't it have been an early form of plastic?