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Lost Roman Gold Mines Revealed in Spain’s Pyrenees After Nearly 1,800 Years
Roman gold mines do not always reveal themselves through glittering treasure. In Spain’s Eastern Pyrenees, their traces survived in a quieter form: river terraces, carved slopes, and sediment buried inside an ancient water system that had not been dated until now. In Spain’s Eastern Pyrenees, researchers have now confirmed that such traces belong to a…
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Prehistoric Fires in a Pyrenees Cave May Reveal One of Europe’s Earliest High-Altitude Copper Mining Sites
Cave 338 sits more than 2,200 meters above sea level in the eastern Pyrenees, where prehistoric visitors left behind fires, bones, ornaments and nearly 200 fragments of green stone. The cave, located near Queralbs in Girona, Spain, close to the French border, may now offer one of the clearest early records of high-altitude copper mineral…