Roman Empire News
Scientists Recreate the Roman Lycurgus Cup’s Color-Changing Magic
Four months of trials led to glass inspired by the Lycurgus Cup. The latest stage brings it into Elliot Walker’s sculpture for Sheffield’s Festival of the Mind.
Roman Empire News
Four months of trials led to glass inspired by the Lycurgus Cup. The latest stage brings it into Elliot Walker’s sculpture for Sheffield’s Festival of the Mind.
Roman Empire News
The Lycurgus Cup combines myth, glass, and light into a single object whose colour changes with its environment. Through material behaviour rather than theory, it reveals how Roman craft exploited visual effects long before their physical causes were understood.