Archaeologists recently unearthed an impressive mining complex dating back 3,000 years, which had been used to extract gold and pulverize and filter quartz.
On the back of the coin, two squares were hammered into the gold staters and one into the silver ones. Soon after Croesus invented modern coinage, the idea was adopted throughout the ancient world.
Crews uncovered plenty more, including Ptolemaic bronze coins, terracotta figurines ... on both the find and the life of ancient Egyptian gold miners. Tim Newcomb is a journalist based in the ...
Around 560 BC, pure gold coins were issued by King Croesus of Ancient Lydia, a kingdom located in what is now western Turkey. Known as gold Croeseid, these were minted alongside silver ...
In a study published March 13 in the journal Antiquity, Redon detailed the rare discovery of shackles at Ghozza, the ...
Archaeologists have discovered a 2,600-year-old pot containing gold jewellery and statuettes of a family of gods at an ancient Egyptian temple. The artefacts found at the site included beads ...
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Archaeologists Discovered a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Gold Mine—and Another World Around ItCrews uncovered plenty more, including Ptolemaic bronze coins, terracotta figurines ... on both the find and the life of ancient Egyptian gold miners.
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