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A ‘spirit mirror’ used in Elizabeth I’s court had Aztec roots
![Elizabeth Healey studying the John Dee Obsidian mirror](https://cdn.statically.io/img/media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-021-02701-5/d41586-021-02701-5_19728916.jpg)
The mirror owned by astrologer John Dee is made of stone traced to a source near Pachuca, Mexico. The Aztecs created objects of the same stone. Credit: Stuart Campbell
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Nature 598, 239 (2021)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02701-5
References
Campbell, S., Healey, E., Kuzmin, Y. & Glascock, M. D. Antiquity https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.132 (2021).