Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old mining complex, complete with remnants of ancient homes, workshops and even baths. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and ...

A total of 38 coins found at the site dated ... The tomb also featured a trove of gold foil artifacts, such as religious statues and ancient Egyptian idols, including the Eye of Horus - a falcon ...

But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-and-silver alloy that often has bits of other metals in it. Alyattes' coins were standardized based on weight ...

The gold buried in the hills of Egypt’s Sukari Mountains was ... Crews uncovered plenty more, including Ptolemaic bronze coins, terracotta figurines depicting human and animal forms from ...

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 ...

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It included "remnants of a complete factory for extracting gold from ... along with Egyptian demotic and Greek. Excavators also unearthed several Ptolemaic-era bronze coins, plus "a large ...

Screengrab from @momenelshenawy's YouTube video Seen from above, Sukari gold mine in southeastern Egypt looks like a massive ... writings on them, bronze coins, precious stone beads and tools ...