Regardless of the specific path to its discovery, synthetic glass as an independent material is not really thought to predate 3000 BCE [1–14]. While once believed to have been an Egyptian innovation [9], this is no longer held to be correct [4]. Rather, it is now thought that glass most likely arose initially in the Hurrian or Mitannian region of Mesopotamia [4, 15], and there is significant evidence that early glass production occurred in both Assyria and Babylonia [5, 16, 17], with expanded production after 1650 BCE [5]. The routine production of glass in Mesopotamia is thought to have begun roughly about 1550 BCE [10–12, 14, 18]. Synthetic glass is viewed as appearing slightly later in Egypt, with the significant manufacture of glass emerging after 1500 BCE [6–15, 18–21]. Glassworking in Egypt is commonly believed to have been established during the reign of Thutmose III (1479–1425 BCE, Fig. 3.1), who had successfully conquered the bulk of Syria in ca. 1450 BCE, resulting in collected tribute in the form of Syrian glass ingots and objects [10–14, 20]. The importing of captive glassmakers into Egypt from the Near East is also credited to Thutmose III [11, 12, 14, 20], ultimately leading to the local production of Egyptian glass by the Amarna period (1353–1337 BCE) [12, 13, 20]. Yet, it is uncertain whether glass was truly being produced onsite during this early period of Egyptian glass, or if craftsmen relied on imported materials (i.e., ingots and cullet) that were then used to produce final objects in Egypt [11–13, 20]. Still, evidence from the Egyptian city of Amarna suggests the onsite production of glass in ca. 1350 BCE [9, 14] and glass objects displaying true Egyptian style quickly appeared, supporting their production within Egypt, likely by native craftsmen [14].