Ancient Egypt was an incredibly advanced culture whose many mysteries still need to be revealed. One of these is the so-called 'Lost City of Gold,' which archaeologists have been searching for ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

Just outside the city of Masvingo in southern Zimbabwe lie the majestic ruins of Great Zimbabwe—an ancient city whose stone ...

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

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 ...

They mark the site of the ancient city Meroë, a UNESCO World Heritage ... and blessed with significant natural resources—iron and gold mines that fostered the development of a metals industry ...

(SOUNDBITE OF RUBBLE FALLING) LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE: This is the ancient gold market of Aleppo. There's a mangled metal - looks like maybe ... BASEL HAMOUIE: We are trying to install lights all over ...

(SOUNDBITE OF RUBBLE FALLING) LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE: This is the ancient gold market of Aleppo ... Unfortunately, half of the city is destroyed. FRAYER: Basel Hamouie returned home from Dubai ...

But Ancient Greece isn’t ... like shoes and belts. And each city-state has its own money, the coins often made from electrum - a mix of silver and gold. Most people wear simple tunics, made ...