The history of glass and glazed material estimated for ca 6,000 years but having a long lasting ‘prehistory’ period of 30,000 years of using natural glasses, the obsidian being the most acknowledged. Within these 6 millennia, early glasses are rare and luxurious and it is Late Roman period with the invention of mouth blown and transparent glasses that introduced the material to broader communities. Science applications for glasses has a background of a few decades and until early 2ist century the main aims where towards the characterisation and manufacture technological and recently the provenance of primary glass material. Advanced instrumentations like Synchrotron and TEM/ 3D Diffractometry shed light to unique research questions like e.g. the differentiation of glass making centers and the fingerprinting of glass coloration.