As the story goes, the glorious ancient city of Atlantis sank under the sea. There are different accounts offering bits and pieces of the lost city's location, but the general consensus has always ...

Archaeologists surveying mudflats in Germany found sunken ruins of large church in the lost medieval town of Rungholt, experts said. Photo from Dirk Bienen-Scholt, Schleswig, via Kiel University The ...

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

For centuries, rumors have circulated about an ancient kingdom called Cantre’r Gwaelod that once existed in Wales’ Cardigan Bay, before it sank beneath the waves to become the basis for a legendary ...

A group of divers who were exploring a 2,600 year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sicily discovered ingots believed to be made of orichalcum, a metal that the ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote to ...