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Necron 99
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April 1st, 2020, 6:08 pm
Full Article:
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A really cool article about the discovery of a lost metal alloy from Ancient Greece.
A group of naval archeologists has uncovered two hundred ingots spread over the sandy seafloor near a 2,600-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sicily. The ingots were made from orichalcum, a rare cast metal that ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote was from the legendary city of Atlantis.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Ancalagon
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- Location: Bellevue, NE
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April 4th, 2020, 6:16 pm
Who'dathunk that a mostly copper based material would be valued only behind gold....
“Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan
