
John Dee’s mirror and the magic of geochemical analysis
The geochemical compositions of ‘the John Dee mirror’ were found to match obsidian from Pachuca

The geochemical compositions of ‘the John Dee mirror’ were found to match obsidian from Pachuca

A leading handbook of scripts and writing that runs to almost a thousand pages, The World’s Writing Systems (1996), edited by Peter Daniels and William Bright, contains scarcely any reference to the Aztec writing system of Mesoamerica. Wikipedia’s entry on…