In the modern day, mirrors are just about everywhere. But that wasn't always the case, and the mirror actually has a ...

Early mirrors like this bronze one were all made of metal, which was then so highly polished that you could literally see your face in it. Like so much else in Japanese culture, mirrors originally ...

Such painstaking appealed to Henry Adams’ New England genius, and Saint-Gaudens’ talent for mirroring vast ideas in bronze made him ... Saint-Gaudens held up the mirror and no more.” ...

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 ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...

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.

Early mirrors like this bronze one were all made of metal, which was then so highly polished that you could literally see your face in it. Like so much else in Japanese culture, mirrors originally ...