A few years back, when I was working as part of an archaeological mission in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, I unearthed a slab of white limestone covered in ancient paint smears. More of that later ...

Ancient gold and silver jewelry has been unearthed from within crypts at an early medieval burial ground in Crimea. The burial ground is called the Almalyk-dere necropolis, and it is located on ...

There, archaeologists found a “rare” ancient Roman brooch. A photo shows the decorated item, which has a dull gold center and an outer bright blue ring dotted with several concentric circles.

Archaeologists found an ancient Greek tomb with gold artifacts that was looted and ... from 300 B.C. to 300 A.D., glass beads, bronze jewelry and bread crumbs. A photo shows some of these ...

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 ...

These artefacts, dating to the 26th Dynasty, provide insights into ancient Egyptian religious ... the stash of jewelry found included gold and metal rings, as well as a three-god statue.

Archaeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old mining factory, worker houses and other ruins at Sukari gold mine ... also very ancient. Archaeologists spent the past two years excavating the ruins ...

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 ...