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Why Is Gold So Highly Valued By Humans Throughout History?
by Michael Locklear
Since the first human spotted the glint of sunlight off a piece of gold lying in a riverbed, mankind has prized its beauty. Before we began to use any form of money it was used to adorn our bodies.
The earliest humans may have found gold in Africa. Later on, as people began to migrate to different parts of the world, they started to find more and more gold in locations around the planet. Some believe that it may have been the first metal to be widely valued due to its brilliance and of course its enduring beauty.
As we discovered how durable gold is due to the fact that it doesn’t tarnish or rust and has great malleability we began to work it into different objects; first perhaps into jewelry and then later into royal adornments and the earliest religious shrines and statues.
Gold began to be associated with gods and kings as we formed ourselves into civilizations. Because of its eternal beauty and durability early peoples connected it to immortality.
Gold became more and more available as man moved forward in time and his geographic expansion. As more of it because available its importance increased. It was always loved for its beauty and indestructible nature as well as its ability to be passed on from generation to generation.
Soon gold became a symbol of power. One of its earliest mentions in writing is in the story of Exodus in the Hebrew bible. As Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, they carried large quantities of the magic material with them.
As the story goes, when he went up on Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God he was gone so long (forty days and forty nights) that the people became frightened and thought that Moses wasn’t coming back. And so they melted down their gold and fashioned it into a “Golden Calf” which they began to worship and pray to for deliverance from the wilderness he had left them in.
Even before this story was told as part of the Hebrew oral tradition, advanced cultures like Egypt and Samaria used gold in temple and idol adornment. Great civilizations had mined gold long before Moses. The Trojans had mined gold in Turkey as early as the Third Millennium before the Common Era.
It may have been as early as 4,000 B.C. after the culture of Turkey and the most eastern parts of Europe started to fashion gold into objects for purposes of decoration and personal adornments using gold mined near modern Romania and other regions nearby.
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