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 ...

the Egyptian god of wisdom, writing, and magic; Hermes, the Greek god of communication, knowledge, and alchemy. Although his existence is legendary, the Hermetic texts were written between the 2nd ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...