The Big Thicket, 1927. The thriving sawmill town of Silsbee sits a few miles from the thickly forested Neches River ...

In Madre de Dios, in the Peruvian Amazon, thousands of people depend on gold mining, while the spread of mercury and ...

First-year Orem football coach Andy Stokes said his players have taken to calling themselves the “Golden Empire.” Who’s to ...

Learn what to look for in Spanish and Latin American colonial coins, from cobs and reales to escudos, mint marks, dates, ...

Zheng Qinwen's run from the qualifying tournament to facing Elena Rybakina in the U.S. Open quarterfinals Wednesday is one of the more impressive feats in recent Grand Slam history. Kena Betancur / ...

U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino vowed to change the attitude and habits of the American national team as he starts a second ...

For centuries, gold was woven into Ethiopia’s political and economic history. Gathered from riverbeds and mining regions, it served as a medium of ...

The well-to-do city of Sardis was home to monumental terraces, houses, and even a gold refinery. After the fall of the Lydian ...

Florida’s Treasure Coast earned its name from a disaster that scattered Spanish wealth along the Atlantic shore more than three centuries ago. Hurricanes and seasonal surf still shift sand around ...

Thieves broke into a municipal museum in Villena, Spain, almost 250 miles southwest of Barcelona, and stole 3,000-year-old gold artifacts rediscovered in the town in 1963. City officials said that an ...

The hoard was found in 1963 by the archaeologist José María Soler in a vessel buried in a dry riverbed. Thieves have emptied most of the Treasure of Villena, one of Europe’s principal Bronze Age gold ...

Thieves on Thursday raided the Treasure of Villena -- one of the greatest Bronze Age gold collections — in the latest high-profile heist at a European museum, officials said. The raid on the 50-plus ...