More than 80 bronze mirrors made during the Western Han Dynasty were discovered in a large-scale ancient tomb in China. Although some 2,000 year old, many of the mirrors are still reflective and show ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--Archaeologists were stunned by the sheer number of bronze mirrors among grave goods at a large keyhole-shaped burial mound here, more than 100 in all, a record. The Sakurai ...

Mirrors are arguably one of the most common items you might come across on a day-to-day basis. Today, these items are in virtually every bathroom, and some people also have decorative mirrors in other ...

Everyday it seems so natural for us to carefully dress up in front of a mirror. However, before the invention of glass, mirrors were made of copper. To be more exact, they were bronze mirrors.

This bronze mirror was found in the 'mirror-pool' at the shrine on Mount Haguro, where it was thrown, along with hundreds of other mirrors, as an offering. The back is decorated with two dancing ...

SAN MARINO – The gift of a major private collection of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors spanning 3,000 years to the Shanghai Museum will be announced today at The Huntington Library. The collection of L ...

A Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) bronze mirror was recently unearthed during a shantytown redevelopment project in Fenyang, North China's Shanxi Province. Its inscriptions shed light on how the dynasty ...

Detail of the objects found in the tomb, with the bronze mirror on the right of the image. Credit: Peter M. Fischer / Oxford Journal of Archaeology Researchers have found a Minoan bronze mirror in an ...

Bronze mirrors that dating to the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25). Photo: Sina Weibo More than 80 fine bronze mirrors dating to the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25) were recently unearthed at a large ...

Projected on a wall in a display case at Cincinnati Art Museum is the image of a Buddha in flowing robes. The Buddha is a reflection from a seemingly opaque bronze mirror. It is known as a “magic” ...

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Henry Adams remarked, “was a child of Benvenuto Cellini, smothered in an American cradle.” Saint-Gaudens certainly lacked Cellini’s proud fire; in his prime he was a jovial, ...

The mirror-presenting activity promoted the development and producing skills of bronze mirrors, and made the mirror well-appreciated by people from every walk of society. 3、As Pledge in Love Since ...