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.

Hou-Mei Sung says a 21-centimeter bronze mirror thought to be from the 16th century had an unexpected feature. If you shine a light on it, it reflects a projected image of a Buddha. “We all know ...

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 ...

A DOCUMENTARY film about the research into a Iron Age bronze mirror will reveal more about the rare artefact. Staff at the Oxfordshire Museum want to use the film to explain hidden secrets behind ...

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 ...

A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese imitation mirrors during the Kofun period (c. 300–538 CE). Lead author ...

Neil MacGregor tells the story of a bronze mirror found at the bottom of a sacred pond. Show more The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects from the British Museum in London.

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.