How long has gold been valuable?

The oldest written evidence for buying and selling gold (for silver bullion) is contained in the Code of Hammurabi (Babylonian King, approximately 18th century BC) and, perhaps as an accounting trick, gold pieces were weighed against silver in order to keep accurate records—these were not coins in the normal sense but rather an ancient form of the troy ounce.

What does the name Pandora Mean?

Why were Daedalus and Icarus important?

The questions of the Signario de Espanca, the first Paleohispanic alphabet discovered
The signary of Espanca was the first Paleohispanic alphabet found in the Iberian Peninsula, but it still raises more questions than answers. Previously, only one other alphabet had appeared, but in Latin characters, that of the Celtiberian sanctuary of Peñalba de Villastar, in Teruel. There is lit
Kerkouane, the only Carthaginian city unmodified by later cultures, whose true name is unknown
In 1952 the French archaeologist Pierre Cintas, a specialist in Punic archeology and famous, among other things, for having discovered the founding deposit of Carthage, together with Charles Saumagne, discovered the ruins of a Carthaginian city in northeastern Tunisia, near Cape Bon . The following
Tabula Traiana, Trajan's inscription on the Iron Gates only visible from the water
In our article When the emperor Hadrian destroyed the longest bridge in the world, we tell how this bridge was ordered to be built by Trajan in the year 103 AD. over the Danube River, to serve as a crossing and supply for the troops in the imminent Second Dacian War against Decebalus. The bridge wa
The Roman sanctuary of Panóias in Portugal, dedicated to Serapis and the gods of Hades, is unique in the world
Next to the village of Assento in the council of Vila Real, in the north of Portugal, there is a curious rocky enclosure in which several cavities of different sizes are carved. Although at first glance some of them may seem natural, they are actually part of a Roman sanctuary built between the end