Ancient texts speak of a strange and valuable metal known as orichalcum. The mystical material was often dismissed as a ...

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These archeological finds are all strikingly intact: some survived against all the odds, some were preserved in unusual ways ...

A stunning brooch dating back to the 7th century found in Germany has been heralded as the one of the most "outstanding" ...

Strontium isotope analysis can be applied to animal and plant tissues to help determine their provenance. Here, the authors generate a strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa using data from 2266 ...

The so-called lost continent of Atlantis has been the source of speculation throughout the ages - although modern scientists doubt it ever actually existed.

An ancient Greek shipwreck off the coast of Sicily has yielded ingots of orichalcum, the mythical "Atlantis metal," offering ...

A fifth-century Greek shipwreck that contains orichalcum is to be recovered from the seabed off Sicily, Italian authorities announced.

Archaeologists are beginning to reveal the secrets of a vanished prehistoric land which now lies at the bottom of the North ...

Parts of the bottom of the North Sea are of huge archaeological importance because they have been relatively untouched by humans since they were inundated between 10,000 and 7,500 years ago.