This week, I got the chance to visit two special exhibits: the Getty Museum has an exhibit on the alchemy of color and the Getty Research Institute has one on art depicting alchemy. From antiquity to ...

In a quiet corner of a European museum, a set of stained crucibles and dusty glassware has forced historians to redraw the timeline of chemistry. When scientists analyzed this medieval alchemist’s kit ...

The age-old alchemical dream of turning lead into gold has quietly become reality at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), though not in a way that would have made medieval alchemists rich. In findings ...

Uncover the hidden history of alchemy, from ancient Egyptian mysticism to its pivotal role in shaping modern chemistry.

In the dim illumination of a library devoted to protecting ancient books from light degradation, James R. Voelkel gingerly picks up a nearly 600-year-old alchemy text. Written by hand sometime around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ceramic container is over 1.5 feet tall. Located in southern Saxony, Germany, Gnandstein Castle's earliest iteration was built ...

Jacques Lagniet, “Recueil des plus illustres proverbes, divises en trois livres…” (1657-1663), engraving, on view in The Art of Alchemy (courtesy the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) The “Great ...

While up to now it had been assumed that alchemy was not practiced by the Estonian clergy after the Reformation, a manuscript has come to light in Switzerland that appears to prove otherwise. By the ...

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