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One Ennion jug, now fragmentary, survived a fire during the Roman capture of Jerusalem in a.d.

From Architectural Digest • Dec. 11, 2014

The first exhibit of ancient glass in the New York museum’s history, “Ennion: Master of Roman Glass” features pieces dating from the early 1st century a.d. by Ennion, the era’'s preeminent maker of mold-blown glass.

From Architectural Digest • Dec. 11, 2014

It was built in stages in the second and third centuries a.d. atop a deep, 300-foot cave created by a lava tube that may have represented the place where human- kind emerged onto the earth.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

By combining scraps of data on several inscriptions, archaeologists have calculated that Chak Tok Ich’aak probably acceded to the throne in 360 a.d.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Anyone who traveled up the Mississippi in 1100 a.d. would have seen it looming in the distance: a four-level earthen mound bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann