Gold didn’t simply glitter in ancient Egypt—it carried a cost people rarely acknowledge. Archaeologists working at Ghooza, a remote gold mine in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, uncovered something far colder ...
In 2023, a team of archaeologists from the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, led by historian Bérangère Redon, found iron shackles during excavations in Ghozza, a mining settlement in Egypt's ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is rich with lithium, an essential mineral for electric car batteries. JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP—Getty Images In crude mines across Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, hands that ...