Guest Post by Simon Black
More than 5,000 years ago on a hilltop located in modern-day Georgia (the country, not the state), a group of people from the prehistoric Kura-Araxes civilization gathered their primitive tools and began to dig.
It took years. But they eventually burrowed 20 meters deep into the earth and constructed a network of elaborate tunnels.
Thousands of years later, archaeologists and geologists figured out why: the Kura-Araxes were digging for gold.
And that site, known as Sakdrisi-Kachagiani, is the oldest gold mine in the world. It predates Ancient Egypt and even Mesopotamia.
And it shows that, even in prehistoric times, our early ancestors valued gold.
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