However, the Romans also started evolving their mirror-making techniques by including silvered metals to create glass instead of relying on bronze or copper. These became commonplace around 1500.

Imagine getting ready without a mirror. No checking your hair, no fixing your collar, no silly faces at your reflection. But ...

These magic mirrors are just some of the items on display in the Rijksmuseum’s autumn exhibition Asian Bronze, which opens on Friday. The exhibition ranges from some of the first images cast by man, ...

Everyday it seems so natural for us to carefully dress up in front of a mirror. However, before the invention of glass, mirrors were made of copper. To be more exact, they were bronze mirrors.

Copper was alloyed with tin to make bronze, so it was in great demand. The tombs "rank among the richest ever found in the Mediterranean region," Fischer said in an email.

Researchers have found a Minoan bronze mirror in an intact Late Bronze Age tomb at the archaeological site of Hala Sultan Tekke on the southeast coast of Cyprus. This mirror, dated to around 1300 BCE, ...

Mirrors were first imported from China in AD 300. They were associated with the sun-goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of the Japanese emperors, because of their ability to reflect light.