Something Awesome This Way Comes...

[petrus4]

I'm guessing this could rattle a few cages.

Rare Orichalcum Metal Said To Be From The Legendary Atlantis Recovered From 2,600-year-old Shipwreck.

From the article:-

A team of marine archaeologists have discovered several dozen ingots scattered across the sandy sea floor near a 2,600-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sicily. The ingots were made from orichalcum, a rare cast metal which ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote was from the legendary city of Atlantis.

According to Discovery News, a total of 39 ingots (metal cast into rectangular blocks) were found close to shipwreck that was discovered in 1988 lying in shallow waters about 300 meters (1,000ft) off the coast of Gela in Sicily.

If this turns out to be true, does anyone care to make a guess about the implications?

[space otter]

awesome indeed.......should be interesting to hear what comes next

that is if it doesn't take decades....

[ArMaP]

If this turns out to be true, does anyone care to make a guess about the implications?

What implications can result from the finding of brass?

Something that was on the original article and that the one you linked to doesn't say is that:

X-ray fluorescence analysis of 39 orichalcum ingots recovered from a 2,600 year old shipwreck off Sicily found them to be an alloy made with 75-80 percent copper, 15-20 percent zinc and small percentages of nickel, lead and iron.

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The thread about the original article, back in January, already had that information.

PS: I don't know why they say those ingots are made of orichalcum, did they find a cargo manifest or something like that?

[Dyna]

What implications can result from the finding of brass?


PS: I don't know why they say those ingots are made of orichalcum, did they find a cargo manifest or something like that?

I think it is pretty clear they only have the general composition and color to go by.

The Romans transliterated "orichalcum" as "aurichalcum," which was thought to literally mean "gold copper". It is known from the writings of Cicero that the metal they called orichalcum, while it resembled gold in colour, had a much lower value