Once dried, silver was deposited onto the pieces via ... and then subsequent batches came out splotchy and decided un-mirror-like. As we mentioned earlier, the first step was a wetting agent ...

With this sextant, one of the mirrors ( mirror A in the diagram) is half-silvered, which allows some light to pass through. In navigating, you look at the horizon through this mirror. The other ...

This is one of very few Roman mirrors of this type known from anywhere in the Roman Empire. A slave would have held the mirror by the ornate handles so that the lady could view her face in the ...