Who first found gold?

The story of gold is older than human history. Our remote ancestors discovered the handsome, yellow metal before they learned how to read and write. This means that nobody recorded the ancient discovery. As the archelogists dig up the remains of age old cultures, however, it is plain that gold was discovered and rediscovered many times and in many different places,

The ancient Egyptians, Persians and Hindus were making objects from gold thousands of years ago. Countless ornaments and objects of gold have been found in their tombs and in the buried remains of their cities. And far across the world, gold was discovered independently in the New World. The ancestors of the famous Incas of Peru and even their ancestors before them were miners of gold and their artists were: very skilled at making objects and ornaments of gold.