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Research

Peptide analysis reveals truth of Seville’s ‘Ivory Lady’

2023-07-06T15:00:00Z

Ancient human remains entombed with an array of treasures, originally believed to be a young male, revealed to be those of a woman

Podcast

Electrum

2019-10-25T09:37:00Z

 Georgia Mills introduces the malleable mixture of gold and silver that minted some of the world’s oldest coins

Research

Tutankhamun’s burial dagger is ‘extra-terrestrial’ in origin

2016-06-06T00:00:00Z

Analysis of the iron in the 3000-year-old mummy’s dagger suggests it originally came from a meteorite