Alchemy is an ancient art, originating in Egypt, that combines practical experiments and philosophical thinking around the nature of matter. While it’s often dismissed as quackery due to some of ...

CE) of Trismegistus lecturing the famed Egyptian geographer Ptolemy ... Going into the medieval period, alchemy began to focus on the creation of new alloys, pigments, and colors to be used ...

As a new exhibition looks at the concept of the loop, Joobin Bekhrad discovers how one symbol had different meanings in ancient Egypt, Hindu mythology and Renaissance alchemy. It is perhaps ...

were considered legally equal to men in court and were able to practice elite disciplines like alchemy. In fact, it was a collective of female alchemists in Ancient Egypt who gave the world beer ...

He presents the origin of Egyptian alchemy as a perfectly logical and highly successful application of Platonic-Aristotelian philosophy to the apparently miraculous colour changes effected by the ...

and “can one thing be transformed into another?” Alchemy emerged in Greco-Roman Egypt in the 1st century CE and spread through the Byzantine and Arab world, absorbing ideas from Indian and ...