The walls were covered with orichalcum, a pink-gold mountain copper, plentiful in the Atlantean Mountains, which made the cathedral shimmer in the sunlight as it perched above the plains of Atlantis.
Ivory enhanced with gold, silver, and orichalcum covered the ceiling, and more orichalcum brightened the walls, pillars, and floors.
This skull was placed within an orichalcum shield beneath the giant Tua crystal, which was secreted within the sanctum sanctorum of Poseidon’s temple.
Orichalcum is a golden-colored bronze alloy which was used extensively throughout Atlantis for unique energy transmissions and was inherited by the people of Khem.
Orichalcum (Plato, Atlantis)
Orichalcum vibrates with the sun and this added to its power and might.
Orichalcum (Plato, Atlantis)
It was placed within an orichalcum shield (a golden-colored bronze alloy used extensively in Atlantis for energy transmissions, later inherited by the people of Khem/Egypt) beneath the giant Tua crystal in the sanctum sanctorum of Poseidon’s temple.
And they covered with brass, as though with plaster, all of the circumference of the wall which surrounded the outermost circle; and that of the inner one they coated with tin; and that which encompassed the Acropolis itself with orichalcum, which sparkled like fire."
This mysterious metal, orichalcum, appears in other sources.
The Roman poet Virgil in his "Aeneid" writes: "But he upon his kingly shoulders clasped his corselet thick with brazen gold and silvery orichalcum.
In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, scholars agree it likely refers to orichalcum: "Her ears, which she had pierced, they hung with fine gold jewelry and Copper Mountain gems.
These references suggest orichalcum could be real, inviting speculation from historians.
Many historians believe this is orichalcum.
According to Plato, orichalcum was valuable, second only to gold.
Scholars note the metal in shipwrecks was treated as valuable, supporting it as orichalcum.
The temple to Poseidon and Cleito was a stadium long, half a stadium wide, with ivory roof, gold, silver, and orichalcum decorations, including a gold statue of Poseidon in a chariot.
Ten kings ruled absolutely but met every five or six years at the temple to enforce laws, inscribe oaths on an orichalcum pillar, and sacrifice bulls.
I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock… Genius is experience… It is the fruit of long experience in many lives.” Cayce once gave a reading for one of Ford’s executive partners, detailing his past life in the Atlantean colonies in Peru as an alchemical expert who had mastered a rare and lost art of tempering copper and iron to create a powerful alloy which he eventually used to create royal electromagnetic armor for a king in pre-dynastic Egypt, likely Plato’s and Hesiod’s “orichalcum,” which we will explore later.
Orichalcum (Plato, Atlantis)
Unlike Atlantis’s mechanical wonders (e.g., orichalcum walls), these are organic, reflecting Taoist synergy with nature.
Unlike Plato’s bronze and orichalcum, Khlebnikov’s Atlantis is sleek and abstract, reflecting early 20th-century fascination with science as art.
Objects such as orichalcum, a legendary alloy linked to Atlantis, and descriptions of flying machines in ancient Indian texts like the Mahabharata and Ramayana, suggest the existence of advanced prehistoric civilizations.
They used gold and silver and a vanished precious metal known as orichalcum in enormous quantities for ornamentation.
These were inscribed by the first then on a column of orichalcum, which was situated in the middle of the island, at the Temple of Poseidon, whither the people were gathered together.
And they were supplied indeed with many things from foreign countries, on account of their extensive empire; but the island afforded them the greater part of everything of which they stood in need.[14] In the first place the island supplied them with such things as are dug out of mines in a solid state, and with such as are melted: and orichalcum, which is now but seldom mentioned, but then was much celebrated, was dug out of the earth in many parts of the island, and was considered as the most honourable of all metals except gold.
Orichalcum, a valuable metal second only to gold, is mined extensively.
Metals, to begin with, both the hard kind and the fusible kind, which are extracted by mining, and also that kind which is now known only by name but was more than a name then, there being mines of it in many places of the island - I mean 'orichalcum,' which was the most precious of the metals then known, except gold.
Plato's account of Atlantis mentions a mysterious metal known as orichalcum.
The walls were coated with brass, tin, and orichalcum, which sparkled like fire.
Pliny the Elder, in his work Natural History, refers to orichalcum, describing it as a metal that was once in high demand but had since become scarce.
Several hypotheses exist regarding orichalcum's composition.
Other ancient texts mention orichalcum.
Virgil's Aeneid describes armor made from a blend of gold and orichalcum.
In Homeric mythology, orichalcum is also referenced in relation to Aphrodite's jewelry, further supporting the idea that it was considered valuable.
Many historians believe these ingots could be orichalcum.
Another shipwreck in 2017 revealed 47 more ingots of the same composition, reinforcing the possibility that this metal is orichalcum.
Orichalcum, also called “mountain copper,” coated the inner wall of the city.
From Plato’s description we know Solon and the priests of Egypt were not familiar with it, although they knew it “sparkled like fire.” In ancient Greek, the language of Solon, the word chalkos, which is the basis of the word orichalcum, applied to all metals, therefore orichalcum literally meant “gold metal.”
Plato describes orichalcum as something that in his time was only known by name, but was once a metal more precious than any except gold.
Memories of the orichalcum of Atlantis appeared 600 years before Plato’s time in the works of the Greek poet Homer, who mentions it as a golden metal in the hymn of Aphrodite.
The island was rich in minerals, including orichalcum, a precious metal second only to gold.
These walls were covered with precious metals, with the outermost wall covered in bronze, the middle in tin, and the innermost in orichalcum, which glowed with a fiery luster.
The wealth of the Atlanteans was immense, with vast quantities of gold, silver, orichalcum, and other precious resources at their disposal.
Laws stand on a pillar of orichalcum.