Any contemporary scholar who even dared to write about alchemy ... substituted a modern list of elements (oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and others) for the ancient four elements (earth, air, fire ...

Alchemy is an ancient art, originating in Egypt ... scientists discovered the principles of non-transmutable elements that form the basis of the periodic table. The knowledge debunked the idea ...

Alchemy also came to Burma from India, but Burmese alchemy became a religious cult. The Burmese alchemist did not merely seek the power to transmute base metals into gold, but had the noble aim of ...