'The Tiffany Effect': False anachronisms

[Treppenwitz]

Something I posted a couple of years ago fits pretty well here

Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

A couple of things which turnout to be way older than you thought, courtesy of a visit to the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes. Dating from around 700 BCE: magnifying glasses and cheese graters. I was actually stopped from photographing them (oops); but here are a couple of interesting cites. An interesting finding from Ialisos, dated between the 7th and 6th centuries BC, consists of a series of three magnifying glasses made of rock crystal and set in decorated bronze frames. The lenses, of dif…

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