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.

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

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

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 ...

in an ancient storage building at Ghozza. The Ghozza shackles closely resemble ones found in the silver mines of Laurion in Greece, Redon wrote in her study, suggesting the Greeks brought their ...

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 ...

A trove of around 15,000 rare gold and silver coins hidden from Nazis and worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million ...

The series of record highs for the gold price continues. Investors rejoice.