Editing Bronze (section)

===Mirrors===
[[File:MirrorDSCF6602.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|left|Decorated back of a [[Celtic art|Celtic]] bronze mirror, 120-80 BCE, [[St Keverne]], England]]
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Before it became possible to produce glass with acceptably flat surfaces, bronze was a standard material for mirrors. Bronze was used for this purpose in many parts of the world, probably based on independent discoveries. Bronze mirrors survive from the Egyptian [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]] (2040–1750 BCE), and China from at least {{circa|550 BCE}}. In Europe, the [[Etruscans]] were making bronze mirrors in the sixth century BCE, and [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] mirrors followed the same pattern. Although other materials such as [[speculum metal]] had come into use, and Western glass mirrors had largely taken over, bronze mirrors were still being made in Japan and elsewhere in the eighteenth century, and are still made on a small scale in [[Kerala]], India.