This bronze mirror was ... Owning a mirror was said to be one of the traits of a ‘magician’ in the Roman world. In other cultures a round mirror was seen as a miniature version of the sun ...

Arguably the star performance though came from Lucy Elliott as the former senior English National bronze medallist ran her quickest time for 10 years as she smashed the UK W55 best with 36:11 (36: ...

Neil MacGregor tells the story of a bronze mirror found at the bottom of a sacred pond. Show more The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects from the British Museum in London.