Remarkably similar restraints were uncovered at the ancient Greek silver mines of Laurion. This suggests that Greek engineers likely introduced their mining technology — and possibly forced ...

Though mining in ancient Egypt dates back as far as 1500 ... They also resemble other shackles discovered in a Greek silver mine in the 1870s. Among other evidence, the resemblance suggests ...

They were found in a peat bog in northeastern Greece near the island of Thasos, an ancient hub for silver mining and ...

The shackles are similar to those found in Laurion, an ancient silver mine in southern Attica, Greece, where slave labor was employed under comparable conditions. The use of shackles suggests that ...

There are many amazing archaeological sites in Attica, home to the capital of Greece, Athens, that remain relatively unknown, even to Greeks.

These mines were probably opened at a very early period, but the precise date does not appear. The ore, "or silver earth," as the Greeks called ... products of tiiese ancient metallic operations ...

Ancient Greece ... in northeastern Greece, near the island of Thasos. Prior archaeological evidence suggests Thasos was one of the region’s most significant sites for silver mining and metalwork ...

Originating in Ancient Greece in the sixth century BCE ... and entered circulation following the discovery of the vast silver mines at Laurion in Attica. Minted to the Attic standard of 4.3 ...

Similar shackles have been found in ancient silver mines at Laurion, Greece. After Alexander’s conquest, Hellenistic engineers travelled to Egypt to open gold mines and might have imported not ...