Gold

HISTORY

For centuries, Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis has guarded its dead beneath layers of desert sand. Just south of Cairo, this sprawling burial ground once served as the cemetery for ancient Memphis, a city that flourished more than 4,000 years ago.

THINGS

In 2010, art dealer and adventurer Forrest Fenn announced that he’d buried a chest filled with treasure somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The news set off a mad scramble marked by greed, obsession, and death.

THINGS

In 1848, news began to circulate within the United States that gold had been discovered in the western land of California. Soon thereafter, hundreds of thousands of people from the United States and around the world...

THINGS

In 1848, news began to circulate within the United States that gold had been discovered in the western land of California. Soon thereafter, hundreds of thousands of people from the United States and around the world...



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