Athena bowl: A silver and gold vessel of the goddess and her owl, buried in a German forest 2,000 years ago
QUICK FACTS Name: Athena bowl What it is: A silver bowl with gold accents Where it is from: Hildesheim, central Germany When it was made:...
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Miniature camelid effigy: A silver llama with a wry smile that the Inca crafted 600 years ago
This silver llama figurine reveals the animal’s importance in the Inca Empire. (Image credit: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977; Metropolitan Museum...
16th-century silver coin discovered near Strait of Magellan marks the spot of a doomed Spanish colony
Archaeologists have discovered a Spanish coin placed beside the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile as part of a ceremony carried out by colonists more...
Antarctica hides huge caches of gold, silver, copper and iron. As the ice melts, countries may race to harvest them.
A warming climate could expose a Pennsylvania-sized chunk of ice-free land in Antarctica by 2300, which could drastically reshape Antarctic geopolitics as well as the...