Deadwood Is Getting a Brothel Museum
A non-profit is telling the local history of prostitution in the Wild West town, popularized by the HBO show of the same name
Scientists Discover Fungus That Collects Gold From Its Environment
The Australian fungus could help miners find the next generation of underground gold deposits
Unearthed: Gold Hatpin Potentially Owned by Edward IV
Sweeping through a field with a metal detector, a woman uncovered the find, which features one of the Yorkist king’s heraldic badges, a “sun in splendor”
Why There Is More to Gold Than Meets the Eye
The Smithsonian’s Gus Casely-Hayford says the precious metal was both a foundation for massive West African empires and a cultural touchstone
New Exhibition Highlights Story of the Richest Man Who Ever Lived
Read about Mansa Musa, emperor of Mali, who once disrupted Egypt’s economy just by passing through
The Goddess in the Margarine Tub Is Just One of 1,267 Treasures Found by the British Public in 2017
A new report reveals the pieces voluntarily recorded with the U.K.’s Portable Antiquities Scheme last year
Paradise’s Gold Nugget Museum Falls Victim to Camp Fire
The beloved local institution was founded in 1973 to commemorate the town’s prospecting past
In Senegal, Female Empowerment, Prestige and Wealth Is Measured in Glittering Gold
The African Art Museum’s new exhibition delves into a tradition that is both ravishingly beautiful and hauntingly fraught
Doubts Swirl Over Claims of Gold-Filled Russian Shipwreck
It is far from certain that the Dmitrii Donskoi would have—or could have— carried such a huge hoard of gold
The Mining Millionaire Americans Couldn’t Help But Love
Unlike the other one-percenters of his age, John Mackay gained his countrymen’s admiration. But in an ironic twist, it means he’s little known today
“Holy Grail” of Spanish Treasure Galleons Found Off Colombia
The San José went down in 1708 filled with gold, silver and gems now worth billions of dollars
Coin Once Believed to Be Fake Is a Million Dollar Find
Authenticators found a New England collector’s Gold Rush-era $5 gold coin is the real McCoy
Was the FBI Searching for Lost Civil War Gold in Pennsylvania?
The agency was recently seen excavating a site where, according to some Elk County locals, a missing shipment of gold bars was buried
15th-Century Pot of Gold (and Silver) Found in the Netherlands
Archaeologists say the coins can shed light on a little-known period of Dutch history
A Search for a Lost Hammer Led to the Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in Britain
Today, archaeologists are still debating just how old the hoard is—and what it tells us about the end of the Roman Empire in Britain
Stinking Rich: Swiss Sewage Contains $1.8 Million in Gold
But don’t start digging through the country’s sewer sludge just yet
Brazil Investigates Alleged Murders of “Uncontacted” Amazon Tribe Members
Gold miners were heard in a bar talking about killing 10 indigenous people in the remote Javari Valley
Did Nazis Hide Loot Beneath This Giant Polish Castle?
Ksiaz Castle in southern Poland sits atop a remarkable complex of underground tunnels built by the Nazis in 1944
Thieves Steal Solid Gold Lunar Lander Model From Armstrong Museum
The five-inch model was created by Cartier as tribute from French newspaper readers to the Apollo 11 astronaut
Nobody Is Sure Why they Call It a ‘Martini’
Tastes just as good, though
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