Scientists have shown that an obsidian hand-mirror once owned by the Renaissance polymath John Dee has Aztec origins, thus confirming a longstanding mystery. John Dee was quite the character. Born in ...
A “spirit mirror” believed to have been used by Queen Elizabeth I’s famed political advisor John Dee was crafted in Aztec Mexico around 500 years ago, reinforcing the idea that the mirror was used by ...
To summon spirits, sixteenth-century English astrologer John Dee, a confidant of Queen Elizabeth I, gazed into a mirror made of polished stone. Now, researchers have confirmed that Dee’s mirror has ...
LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a CNN report, Stuart Campbell of the University of Manchester and his colleagues examined several obsidian objects held at the British Museum. One of the objects, a mirror ...
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