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 ...

The research focused on 18 bronze imitation mirrors from the Maruyama Tomb in Tsuruyama, Okayama Prefecture. Mabuchi had previously observed a wide range of tin and lead concentrations in these ...

Amid the thousands of treasures in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s East Asian art collection, a small bronze mirror dating back to the 15th or 16th century always seemed rather unremarkable.. Last ...

An Eight-Lobed Mirror with Musicians and Foreign Dancer, cast bronze with inlaid mother-of-pearl, turquoise and amber dating from the Warring States period (450-221 B.C.E.). A Mirror with Riders ...

An exhibition of ancient bronze mirrors unearthed during an archeological excavation in Primorsky Kray in Russia's Far East, was opened in Vladivostok on April 8. About 30 medieval Chinese and ...

Located within the site’s industrial zone, the workshop produced bronze mirrors some 2,000 years ago, during the Han Dynasty, when bronze mirrors, which had been objects owned only by the elite ...

Few surgical operations are older than those performed for cataract of the eye. As early as about 2000 B.C., the Code of Hammurabi ordained: "If a physician . . . open a tumor of the eye with a ...