Recently, archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining camp in the Sukari Mountains. Crews found evidence of ancient gold mining, processing, and purification. The archaeological ...

Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old mining complex ... of the techniques used by ancient Egyptians to extract gold from rocks, and [helped historians gain ...

In the second century BCE, Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides wrote about the severe working conditions of the criminals and prisoners of war who toiled in ancient Egyptian gold mines ...

Egypt has a long history of gold mining, with sites spread across the country. The eastern desert, in particular, has been rich in mineral resources since ancient times. During the New Kingdom ...

The ancient Egyptians sure loved gold, and it seems they saw human suffering as a small price to pay for the precious metal. New discoveries at a 2,300-year-old gold mine reveal that some workers ...

Similar shackles have been found in ancient silver mines at Laurion, Greece. After Alexander’s conquest, Hellenistic engineers travelled to Egypt to open gold mines and might have imported not ...

Photo from B. Redon via Redon (2025) and Antiquity Publications Ltd While excavating the ruins of an ancient gold mining village in Egypt, archaeologists uncovered some eerie artifacts ...

Gold miners in the Yukon are discovering mummified ancient animals from the Ice Age. Paleontologists often gather truckloads of fossils from the mines, but mummies are special and rare.