Discovery of Gold
Asa : Casa!
What are you doing?
Casa : I am collecting gold.
Asa : In that?
Casa : Yes, this is how ancient people collected
gold.
Gold was first found as shiny nuggets on river
beds and people made sieves with sheep fleece
to separate water, dirt and sort the pebbles
from the small gold nuggets.
It was a very tiring process.
Asa : Yes, but who discovered gold?
Casa : Come, let us take a look.
People in Chalcolithic age, which is also
known as the early Bronze and sometimes the
Copper Age of human civilisation.
They were the first to use gold.
In those days, only the kings and gods, wore
gold, as it was something they considered
precious.
Asa : Wow!
Where are we Casa?
Casa : We are in Varna Necropolis, an ancient
burial site discovered in October 1972, by
an excavator operator Raycho Marinov.
This is an ancient burial site in Bulgaria,
where they discovered the earliest gold.
The gold found here along with other artifacts
dates back between 4560 BC to 4450 BC, according
to radiocarbon dating methods conducted 
in 2006.
Asa : Wow!
What's happening Casa!?
Look!
The streets are turning to gold.
Casa : Yes, we have now landed in Egypt!
Infact, the ancient Egyptian king Tushratta
of Mitanni claimed Egypt has more gold than
dirt in 2600 BC.
Asa : Really?
Casa : Well, the ancient Egyptians were one
of the first people to have detailed map of
their gold mining region in Nubia in the Turin
Papyrus Map, which also showed the structure
of the early gold mining facility.
Apart from the Egyptians, the ancient Romans
and Greeks had become experts in mining and
processing gold.
The Romans had even designed a hydraulic gold
mining machine!
Asa : Oh!
I'm so excited.
Let's go to our riverbed and look for gold!
