I had seen another link to this story but then managed to lose it, but came across it again in this report from indianewsrepublic.com about a forthcoming auction at Sotheby’s of two pairs of seventeenth century Mughal sunglasses - an understated design with emeralds for lenses set in diamond encrusted frames…. - which can be seen at Rare diamonds, Mughal emerald eyeglasses auctioned in Britain
I had read in the past that the Emperor Nero used a slice of emerald as an early form of sunglasses when at the Games and here is evidence of the same medium to screen Imperial eyes.
Eat your heart out Rayban ….
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