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.

At the edge of Egypt’s vast Eastern Desert, archaeologists have unearthed haunting evidence of an ancient dark history — ...

Greece's new National Geological Museum has opened its doors to the public, showcasing the country's rich mineral wealth.

French researchers have unearthed disturbing artifacts in Egypt's Eastern Desert: iron shackles that were once used to chain workers in gold mines. The shackles, which date back to the 3rd century B.C ...

The shackles are similar to those found in Laurion, an ancient silver mine in southern Attica, Greece, where slave labor was employed under comparable conditions. The use of shackles suggests that ...

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 ...

Ancient Greeks made their coins by extracting silver from lead-rich ore. Greece’s mining and smelting operations ended up seriously polluting Earth’s atmosphere, as modern scientists have ...