Scientists have shown that an obsidian hand-mirror once owned by the Renaissance polymath John Dee has Aztec origins, thus confirming a longstanding mystery. John Dee was quite the character. Born in ...

The mirror, now held in the British Museum in London, has long been suspected of being made by the ancient South American empire, but the truth was lost to history. Now, thanks to a system that ...

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There are plenty of ways to deal with chemical waste: You could ship it across the ocean. Or pump in into Ohio. Or, you could use a Back to the Future-style process that “recreates the conditions ...

Elizabeth I, who ruled England from 1558 to 1603, was served by astrologer John Dee, who excels in mathematics and alchemy. A new study has revealed that the existing obsidian mirror called 'spiritual ...

Researchers have determined that an obsidian mirror believed to have been owned by the sixteenth-century English polymath John Dee originated in the Aztec world. Dee served as a scientific adviser and ...

Archaeologists excavating at Canhasan in central Turkey have unearthed an extraordinarily rare 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror. The discovery represents one of only 56 such mirrors ever found across ...

Milan 2014: Amsterdam designers Studio Drift have fabricated a mirror from a synthetic glass created as a byproduct during the recycling of chemical waste. Gordijn and Nauta of Studio Drift designed ...

Milan 2014: Amsterdam designers Studio Drift have fabricated a mirror from a synthetic glass created as a byproduct during the recycling of chemical waste. Gordijn and Nauta of Studio Drift designed ...