"Straight away people said it was 3,000-year-old gold and at that point we ... terminals" and would have been used to clasp together a dress, skirt or cloak "of an important person," according ...

An amateur metal detectorist has stuck gold after he discovered a 'one-in-a-billion' Bronze Age artefact. Jonathan Needham, 54, found the 3,000-year-old cloak fastener on a patch of land in ...

Topping W editors’ holiday wish lists: the Clasp, an Erté evening bag brought ... with the help of some 3,978 diamonds, 20 ounces of gold, black sapphires, rubies, and pearl tassels.

They used the cloak to conceal a small bump on a gold surface -- a bit like hiding a small object underneath a carpet and then making both the bump and the carpet invisible. The "cloak" was ...

Smolyaninov’s cloak consists of a two-dimensional pattern of concentric gold rings coated in a plastic called polymethyl methacrylate. The plastic and the gold each have different refractive ...