THE history of alchemy should properly begin with a survey ... Later on they declined, and in Egypt, by the beginning of the Christian era, had mostly deteriorated into an imitative technique ...

The sciences of alchemy, chemistry and medicine originated in China, Egypt, and India, but all underwent important developments in Islamic Asian countries and in Tibet and Mongolia throughout the ...

from ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism / Algis Uždavinys -- Metallurgy and demiurgy: the roots of Greek alchemy in the mythology of Hephaestos (Discussions) / Rod Blackhirst -- Taking from water to fill ...

Its roots can be traced back to 3rd-century Hellenistic Egypt. The word “alchemy” comes from the Greek word Khemia (“the art of transmutation”) and its Arabic translation “Al-Kimiya.” ...