人们最早见到自己的形象是在水里。当代镜子的“祖先”是磨亮的火山黑曜石和青铜圆盘。青铜圆盘镜出现在青铜器时代的东方国家,首先是中国。公元前800～480年,青铜圆盘镜在古希腊也很普遍。到了铁器时代金属镜得到更广泛的使用:古埃及用磨得极光的铜和银制镜。近东古国腓尼基的西顿人发明磨光的玻璃镜。到公元一世纪,罗马 People first saw their image in the water. The “ancestors” of contemporary mirrors are polished volcanic obsidian and bronze discs. Bronze disc mirrors appeared in the Eastern Bronze Age countries, first of all China. From 800 to 480 BC, bronze disc mirrors were also common in ancient Greece. By the Iron Age metal mirrors were more widely used: Ancient Egypt used aurora bronze and silver mirrors. The Siltons of Phoenicia, an ancient country in the east, invented polished glass mirrors. By the first century AD, Rome