Image showing an ancient Egyptian deity in the Temple of Edfu. Traces of gold leaf decoration on the deity's shoulder can be seen in the magnified portion. Image showing an ancient Egyptian deity ...

Discovering preserved paint in ancient Egyptian temples is rare, but finding gold leaf is even less common. The Egyptians began covering columns, gates and obelisks with gold at the beginning of ...

Land of gold.” Advertisements like this can be found everywhere in a place that has, since antiquity, sat at the heart of southern Egypt’s commercial and cultural life. The presence of ...

At an ancient Egyptian temple, rare traces of gold leaf and graffiti were uncovered. A team of researchers from the Julius ...

IMAGE: An ancient Egyptian mummy. Some 70 million high-ranking Egyptians were mummified (of which only a fraction have been ...

The deal would make the South African gold miner the world’s fourth largest producer of the precious metal as it hands it the key to the Sukari mine in Egypt. Sukari is the country’s largest ...

How much is gold per ounce? The price of gold traded at $2,681.81 per troy ounce, as of 9 a.m. ET. That’s up 1.26% from yesterday’s gold price per ounce and up 29.79% since the beginning of ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Courtesy of the Grand Egyptian Museum If nothing fascinates like ancient civilizations, there’s something uniquely captivating ...

What is the price of gold today? Gold was trading at $2,648.31 per troy ounce as of 9 a.m. ET. That’s a -0.12% change since yesterday. The precious metal is up 28.17% since Jan. 1, 2024.

Gold is a precious metal famed for its use in jewellery and as a form of investment. Its atomic number is 79 and its Latin name is ‘aurum’, thus its symbol on the periodic table, Au.

The Royal Canadian Mint has introduced its latest Gold Maple Leaf bullion coin – made entirely from gold sourced from a single mine in northern Ontario. The 2024 $50 1 oz. 99.99% Pure Gold Maple Leaf ...