First sunglasses

The oldest examples of sunglasses date to around the first century CE. It was at this time that the indigenous Iñuit peoples of Arctic Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland began using "snow goggles" during the arctic summer. These consisted of a thin eye-mask of wood or bone, perforated by thin horizontal slits which limited the amount of light that reached the wearer's eyes, protecting them from the dazzling brightness of sunlight reflecting off snow.

Snow Goggles dating to the first centuries CE have been found in archaeological sites in both Alaska and Siberia, revealing that the eyewear was worn by the Inuit across the Artic.