Scientists have shown that an obsidian hand-mirror once owned by the Renaissance polymath John Dee has Aztec origins, thus confirming a longstanding mystery. John Dee was quite the character. Born in ...

You might think a concert of 16th-century English church music, in Latin — with a few pieces barely tipping into the 17th century — too esoteric to attract much of a crowd. But on international tours ...

A ring of human skulls originally circled 16th-century magician John Dee in a painting by the English artist Henry Gillard Glindoni. Henry Gillard Glindoni, “John Dee performing an experiment before ...