Periodic Reporting for period 4 - AlchemEast (Alchemy in the Making: From ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac and Arabic traditions (1500 BCE - 1000 AD))

The AlchemEast project integrates different perspectives and novel methodologies to offer a new paradigm for the history of ancient alchemy. The AlchemEast team conducts his research along three main lines of investigation:(1) In a long-term perspective, we aim to reconstruct...