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The first manmade glass appeared roughly 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. By 1200 B.C., a technique for pressing it into molds had been developed in Egypt and, with the invention of glass blowing, perfected in the first century in the city of Sidon along the Syrian coast, cities like Damascus and Tyre became flourishing epicenters for a new industry. Syria is where glass was ‘born’ and with growing affordability to a larger market, it was incorporated into daily domestic use by the Romans.