Found: An Ancient Metal Alloy – Orichalcum

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While searching the wreckage of a ship that sank 2,600 years ago, divers found 39 ingots of orichalcum, an ancient brass-like metal alloy that, according to Plato’s Critias Dialogue, covered citadel walls on Atlantis.

Makes me wonder how many other forgotten treasures lay in the vastly-unexplored Oceans.

Read more from Discovery News here.

 

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