GOLD HAS BEEN SEEN, USED, WORKED ON THROUGH AGES
The history of gold has begun since the antiquity.
Gold is the easiest metals to work on since it was found in ore-bodies. Gold has always been used as powerful stuff because of its physical characteristics such as its extremely ductile and malleable characteristics.
Gold in ancient times was made into shrines and idols ("the Golden Calf"), plates, cups, vases and vessels of all kinds, and of course, jewelry for personal adornment. Gold has always had value to humans, even before it was money.
=> This is demonstrated by the extraordinary efforts made to obtain it. Prospecting for gold was a worldwide effort going back thousands of years, even before the first money in the form of gold coins appeared about 700 B.C.
The earliest history of human interaction with gold is the association with the gods, with immortality, and with wealth itself .
Early civilizations equated gold with gods and rulers, and gold was sought in their name and dedicated to their glorification.Humans almost intuitively place a high value on gold, equating it with power, beauty, and the cultural elite. And since gold is widely distributed all over the globe, we find this same thinking about gold throughout ancient and modern civilizations everywhere.
In the quest for gold by the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Indians, Hittites, Chinese, and others, prisoners of war were sent to work the mines, as were slaves and criminals. And this happened during a time when gold had no value as 'money,' but was just considered a desirable commodity in and of itself.
The 'value' of gold was accepted all over the world. Today, as in ancient times, the intrinsic appeal of gold itself has that universal appeal to humans.
However, without hard archaeological evidence to pinpoint the time and place of man's first happy encounter with the yellow metal, we can only conjecture about those persons, who at various places and at different times first came upon native gold.
The history of gold has begun since the antiquity.
Gold is the easiest metals to work on since it was found in ore-bodies. Gold has always been used as powerful stuff because of its physical characteristics such as its extremely ductile and malleable characteristics.
Gold in ancient times was made into shrines and idols ("the Golden Calf"), plates, cups, vases and vessels of all kinds, and of course, jewelry for personal adornment. Gold has always had value to humans, even before it was money.
=> This is demonstrated by the extraordinary efforts made to obtain it. Prospecting for gold was a worldwide effort going back thousands of years, even before the first money in the form of gold coins appeared about 700 B.C.
The earliest history of human interaction with gold is the association with the gods, with immortality, and with wealth itself .
Early civilizations equated gold with gods and rulers, and gold was sought in their name and dedicated to their glorification.Humans almost intuitively place a high value on gold, equating it with power, beauty, and the cultural elite. And since gold is widely distributed all over the globe, we find this same thinking about gold throughout ancient and modern civilizations everywhere.
In the quest for gold by the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Indians, Hittites, Chinese, and others, prisoners of war were sent to work the mines, as were slaves and criminals. And this happened during a time when gold had no value as 'money,' but was just considered a desirable commodity in and of itself.
The 'value' of gold was accepted all over the world. Today, as in ancient times, the intrinsic appeal of gold itself has that universal appeal to humans.
However, without hard archaeological evidence to pinpoint the time and place of man's first happy encounter with the yellow metal, we can only conjecture about those persons, who at various places and at different times first came upon native gold.
Gold is produced by an enormous collision of 2 neutron stars which is rarely to occur. For more than 10,000 years, there is only one collision of these stars. Because of this reason, gold is really rare, rarer than the appearance of silver.
After the collision of neutron stars, the gold that they spewed up, scattered everywhere and was brought to us by millions of meteorites, and that is the beginning of the history of gold. Let have a look deeper in the history of gold both in ancient and now a day time by clicking the button below :Đ |
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