The legendary tale of Atlantis has captured human imagination for over two millennia, sparking countless expeditions, debates, and theories about its possible existence. But today’s archaeologists are approaching this ancient mystery in entirely new ways. Rather than dismissing it as pure myth or desperately searching for a sunken city, they’re examining how real discoveries of ...
In a museum storeroom nearly a century ago, a clay jar with a copper cylinder and an iron rod began whispering a rumor that refuses to fade: maybe electricity sparked in antiquity. The so‑called Baghdad Battery, unearthed near modern-day Baghdad in the 1930s and dated to the Parthian or early Sasanian era, has since lived ...
In 1860, a farmer in the quiet Slovak village of Ivanka pri Nitre found something much more unusual than roots or rocks, a beautiful crown with gold panels buried in the ground. Historians, archaeologists, and art experts would spend the next hundred years arguing about whether this accidental discovery was the lost treasure of Byzantine ...
Gargi Chakravorty
