Study suggests ancient Indian scholars knew mineral acids centuries before Europeans

Examining classical Indian texts written before the 8th century CE, the scientists have also questioned the belief that Arab alchemists first developed mineral acids after the 9th century.

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/scienc...466757.ece

"The Elusive Hermes Trismegistus & the Founding of Hermeticism. Hermes Trismegistus is the founding figure of Hermeticism, an elusive Greco-Egyptian philosophy that influenced the Renaissance and modern occultism."

https://www.thecollector.com/hermes-tris...rmeticism/

"India possesses a profound historical knowledge of alchemy through Rasashastra and Siddha traditions, focusing on mercury processing for medicine and transmutation. These practices hold untapped potential for modern pharmaceuticals and materials science, yet they face decline due to scientific skepticism and regulatory hurdles. Despite this, select Siddha practitioners continue secretive applications in traditional healing."

https://ranachanda.blogspot.com/2026/01/...astra.html

Stephen Bax.

"The intriguing 15 th century Voynich manuscript has often been called "the most mysterious manuscript in the world". Filled with beguiling images of plants, stars, and strange designs and people, the manuscript has perplexed readers for centuries. We know nothing about its purpose, origin, or authorship. It has been called by the New York Times the 'white whale of the code-breaking world' (Markoff 2011, np). Until now, not a single word of the manuscript has been convincingly interpreted or decoded. This paper offers a proposed partial decoding of the Voynich script. It adopts a 'bottom-up' approach, following the method employed successfully to decode Egyptian hieroglyphs and Cretan Linear B script in the past."

https://www.academia.edu/5932444/A_propo...ich_script

Alchemy in Medieval Islam and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī

By Takatomo Inoue

"This dissertation aims to establish a basis when studying the history of alchemy in medieval Islam, to make clear what is alchemists’ alchemical theory and what is not in spite of affirmative claims, to reassess understanding of alchemy among modern scholars, to explore experimentalism in alchemy and to examine al-Rāzī’s alchemy, use of experience, and the relationship between his alchemy and medicine."

https://www.academia.edu/144916889/Alche...%81z%C4%AB

Evans Lansing Smith

From Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism. New Series. 13.1 (Spring 1994): 11-18. 

"Several of the fundamental metaphors of medieval alchemy survive in the scholarship and literature of Modernism (1895-1946), including the notion of the breakdown of molecular compounds to the four elements from which all creation (cosmogonic, ontogenetic, poetic) derives. This occurs in a variety of symbolic crucibles, and precipitates Modernist variants of such hermetic images of the Opus as the conjunction of Sol and Luna, the Child, and the philosopher’s stone. Informing the whole process is the notion of transfiguration, an alchemical allegory of poeisis that we find in Modernism, all the way from Strindberg to H.D."

https://www.academia.edu/34765457/Alchem...ernism_pdf

"This website is devoted to helping individuals understand and apply the principles of alchemy. Alchemy’s most basic tenet is that there are two ways of knowing reality. Learning to work with both of them is how the journey of transformation begins."

https://www.alchemylab.com/

"A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J Chapman, 1805, after R Corbould. Created 27 July 1805."

https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-ima...ale-figure

"How did the Knights Templar practice and protect the science of alchemy, inherited from Atlantis, and applied to activate the pineal gland?2

https://www.gaia.com/video/alchemical-ri...activation

"Welcome to the Francisco Piria Castle, a place where 19th-century ambition took architectural form. This battlemented residence turned museum tells the story of Francisco Piria, the entrepreneur who transformed Uruguay's coastline and brought a touch of European grandeur to South America...What sets this castle apart is its hidden basement, where Piria conducted alchemical experiments. Though closed to visitors, this laboratory adds an air of mystery to the estate."

https://whichmuseum.co.uk/news/francisco...ruguay-154

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Piria