Glass was first "created" for human use by the Syrians and then later by the Romans.
More specifically, according to Pliny the Elder, it was the Phoenicians that first invented glass.
Glass blowing was invented by the Syrians in the 1st century BC.
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he history of creating glass can be traced back to 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia. The term glass developed in the late Roman Empire. It was in the Roman glassmaking center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term glesum originated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance.