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Egyptian Empire Was Built Around Cruelty, Skeletons With Iron Shackles Found in 2,300-Yr-Old Gold Mine Reveal Grim Reality
Gold was extracted from Egyptian mines through forced labor to finance the wars and expansion of the ancient kingdom.
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These 2,200-Year-Old Shackles Reveal The Dark Side of Egypt’s Ancient Gold Mines
At the edge of Egypt’s vast Eastern Desert, archaeologists have unearthed haunting evidence of an ancient dark history — ...
2,200-year-old shackles discovered at ancient Egyptian gold mine
In a study published March 13 in the journal Antiquity, Redon detailed the rare discovery of shackles at Ghozza, the ...
Iron shackles found in Egypt reveal forced labor in ancient gold mines
In 2023, a team of archaeologists from the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, led by historian Bérangère Redon, found ...
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Ancient shackles testify to brutality of Egypt’s gold mines
After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, a gold rush swept the kingdom, during which nearly 40 mines were ...
Iron shackles found at Ghozza suggest at least some gold miners during Egypt's Ptolemaic period were slaves
A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that ...
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Hidden Egyptian gold and groundbreaking canoes: See the latest archaeology discoveries
Screenshot from Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities' Facebook post Archaeologists working at the Karnak temple complex in Luxor, Egypt, uncovered a broken pot containing gold and metal rings ...
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Golden artifacts — found in broken pot — discovered at famed Egyptian temple. See them
Screenshot from Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities' Facebook post Gold and metal rings, gold-plated beads ... post The 26th dynasty of ancient Egypt, called the Late Period or Saite Period ...