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3,500-Year-Old Gold Jewels Found on Aegina May Unlock a Mystery in the British Museum
A group of 3,500-year-old gold jewels unearthed on the Greek island of Aegina may offer something that one of the British Museum’s most enigmatic Bronze Age collections has lacked for more than a century: a reliable archaeological context. The 32 gold and semi-precious stone objects were discovered during the 2025 excavation season at Kolona, a…
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A 3,500-Year-Old Gold Jewelry Set Found on Aegina May Help Unlock a Bronze Age Mystery
That is the case at Kolona on the Greek island of Aegina, where archaeologists have uncovered an exceptional set of Middle Bronze Age gold ornaments dating to the first half of the second millennium BCE. Announced by the Greek Ministry of Culture, the discovery may offer fresh insight into elite identity, funerary customs, and the…