The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

The artifacts reveal the harsh working conditions in ancient Egyptian gold mines under the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

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After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, a gold rush swept the kingdom, during which nearly 40 mines were ...

From ancient Roman structures under homes to Viking jewelry in a wetland, here are some of the latest archaeological discoveries.

Archaeologists have unearthed a chilling discovery at an ancient Egyptian gold mine—two sets of iron shackles dating back ...

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.

The project was soon dubbed 'Reviving the Ancient City of Gold' and slowly led to the restoration of this ancient site. It took about five years, but this mining complex has now b ...

Trove of ancient axes shows early humans made tools from bones Six million years ago, our apelike ancestors probably smashed nuts with rocks or caught termites with sticks.

Yield farming, also known as liquidity mining, is a decentralized finance ... fees earned and token rewards, with several tools aiding projections. To accurately estimate potential returns ...