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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

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

From Architectural Digest • Dec. 11, 2014

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

Beginning in about 1200 a.d., according to Woods, Cahokia’s maize fields repeatedly flooded, destroying the harvests.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Construction began in about 1000 a.d. on an earthen structure that would eventually cover fifteen acres and rise to a height of about a hundred feet, higher than anything around it for miles.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann