While it is thought that the ancient Greeks constructed their handheld mirrors with the use of pure copper, bronze was another metal used in early mirrors. Among those who utilized the ...

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 ...

The Sakurai Chausuyama burial mound, which some assume to be a royal tomb from an early period of the ancient Yamato State, has yielded a total of 385 bronze mirror fragments during excavations ...