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

Today, gold mining companies focus on environmental, social and governance aspects. This used to be different.

The ancient Egyptians sure loved gold, and it seems they saw human suffering as a small price to pay for the precious metal.

Recently, archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining camp in the Sukari Mountains. Crews found evidence of ancient gold mining, processing, and purification. The archaeological ...

Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery ... The site was located near Sukari Gold Mine, which opened in 2009, and officials noted that the unearthed artifacts were relocated to a ...

A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that ...

Archaeologists identified the partial figures as Bastet, an Egyptian deity who often took ... Today, “Sukari is a large-scale, modern gold mine comprising both a low-cost bulk tonnage open ...

The gold extracted from these mines helped finance the ambitions of Egypt’s rulers, but it came at a significant human cost.” ...

Archaeologists were under pressure to complete the project as the site is currently endangered by modern mining activities. The Egyptian team uncovered a vast gold processing complex that dates ...

In a study published March 13 in the journal Antiquity, Redon detailed the rare discovery of shackles at Ghozza, the ...

Archaeologists spent the past two years excavating the ruins of a 3,000-year-old mining camp at Sukari Mountain, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a Feb. 25 Facebook post. The ...