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 ...

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 ...

Professor Valentino Nizzo, Etruscologist from the University of Naples, l'Orientale, identified a precious Etruscan mirror ...

Some have suggested that bronze mirrors of ancient times may have also had similar functions. The age-old skills for making these magic mirrors are being preserved today at Yamamoto Gokin ...