Ancient Egyptian Gold Mine Reveals 3,000-Year-Old Treasures

Recent discoveries include a 3,000-year-old gold mining complex in Jabal Sukari (Red Sea Governorate, Egypt), featuring remnants of homes, workshops, and a gold extraction factory. The complex, dating back three millennia, showcases advanced metallurgical skills, including quartz crushing, grinding, and gold smelting in clay furnaces. Artifacts found include ostraca (inscribed pottery and stone) in hieroglyphics, demotic Egyptian script, and Greek, along with Ptolemaic-era bronze coins and Greco-Roman terracotta statues. The findings have been relocated for preservation.