Latest about gold
Elite Bronze Age tombs laden with gold and precious stones are 'among the richest ever found in the Mediterranean'
The obvious wealth of the tombs was based on the local production of copper, which was in great demand at the time to make bronze.
Kentucky man finds over 700 Civil War-era coins buried in his cornfield
A man unearthed a huge hoard of Civil War-era gold and silver coins on his Kentucky farm.
Mysterious 'golden' fossils from the Jurassic aren’t what they seem
Fossils found in Germany's Posidonia Shale don't get their gleam from fool's gold after all.
'Absolutely gobsmacking' gold nugget worth $160,000 unearthed by metal detectorist in Australia
An amateur gold digger in Australia has unearthed a massive gold nugget worth $160,000.
'Very, very rare' gold and silver medieval treasure unearthed in the Netherlands
Museum curators in the Netherlands think that a dazzling, 800-year-old array of gold jewelry and silver coins unearthed by a metal detectorist was buried in a medieval swamp to save it during wartime.
Stunning gem-covered gold earrings discovered in 800-year-old hoard in Germany
Byzantine earrings and an Islamic-style coin were found by a town key to Viking trade in Germany.
17th-century Frenchwoman's 'innovative' gold dental work was likely torturous to her teeth
The teeth of an aristocratic French woman who lived at the turn of the 17th century were held in place with fine gold wires, a new study has found.
Egyptian mummies covered in gold are rare, and we may have just found the oldest
An ancient Egyptian mummy is the oldest covered with gold, but it's not the oldest ancient Egyptian mummy on record.
