The artifacts reveal the harsh working conditions in ancient Egyptian gold mines under the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

New discoveries at a 2,300-year-old gold mine reveal that some workers may have been forced to extract the material with heavy iron shackles around their ankles, highlighting the cruelty and ...

French researchers have unearthed disturbing artifacts in Egypt's Eastern Desert: iron shackles that were once used to chain workers in gold mines. The shackles, which date back to the 3rd century B.C ...

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 ...

After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, a gold rush swept the kingdom ... are a reminder that the beauty and riches of ancient Egypt were created by a culture also characterized ...

suggesting the Greeks brought their technical knowledge of mine engineering to Egypt during the Ptolemaic period. The mined Egyptian gold would have helped fund Ptolemy I's military campaigns at ...

Ehab Wassef, Head of the Gold and Precious Metals Division at the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI), reported an ...

Archaeologists excavating the 2,200-year-old ruins of a gold mining village in Ghozza found two sets of metal shackles, a study said. Photo from B. Redon via Redon (2025) and Antiquity ...

Archaeologists have unearthed of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining settlement hidden beneath the sands, known as the "Lost City of Gold". The long-lost city of Aten, near Luxor, was initially ...

The longest and final dynasty of ancient Egypt, the era opened with the rule ... The northernmost gold mine from this period was located at Ghozza and operated during the second half of the ...