This vintage glass is sure to set off a new aesthetically pleasing trend. Here's a breakdown of its design and the ...

Crafted in Venice, these blue beads traveled all the way to northern Alaska in the mid-15th century. M. L. Kunz et al. / American Antiquity More than five centuries ago, a handful of blueberry ...

Strand of green Venetian glass trade beads strung on a nylon string. Small green beads of varying round sizes have drilled holes at center. Green beads have slight color variation, with many beads ...

Archaeologists Baffled to Find 1400 European-Made Glass Beads in North America - But Columbus Reached Only in 1492. Countries of the world had thousands of years of history that preceded the ...

Glass beads made in Venice that archeologists found in northern Alaska. Photo courtesy January 2021 paper “A Precolumbian Presence of Venetian Glass Trade Beads in Arctic Alaska,” in the ...

The blueberry-sized beads traveled some 10,000 miles from Venice to get to the Americas more than five centuries ago. Venetian glass beads uncovered in Alaska. Photo: Lester Ross.

Archaeologists have discovered Venetian glass beads dating back to the pre-colonial period in three Indigenous sites in arctic Alaska. The artifacts may be the first documented instance of ...