Rhesus' Gold, Heracles' Iron: the archaeology of metals mining and exploitation in NE Greece
Author
Nerantzis X. Nerantzis
East Macedonia in northern Greece has rich deposits of gold and silver as well as copper and iron ores. The gold and silver were important to Classical Athens and even more so in Hellenistic times. This book looks at the archaeological and archaeometallurgical evidence for the mining and processing of the ores and the extraction of the metal.