Gold in Ancient Egypt

Gold is one of the precious metals that were topping the list of minerals that tortuous ancient Egyptian basically still, of course, in the formulation of ornaments, and knew since a very long time, from the era of pre-dynasties almost since the era of civilization critics II, and often there is no pure never because it has a lineage silver or copper or iron

The source of gold

Gold was found in veins of quartz stone or mixed with sand and rubble , which was fragmented water from the rocks and was often congregate by the stream of water in certain areas and the ancient Egyptian in this case he gets the gold wash sand and rubble and the other by a stream of water, that is a light material such as sand and thus remain heavy materials only and among which was the gold and take it and his collections and then melt so that it can be used , either for the extraction of gold from the rocks of quartz was by cutting veins of gold -piece rock surrounding the mountain, and then break it into small pieces in utensils large stone and then be crushed by molar handmade to become a very fine powder and then put it on the sloping surface and pass it a stream of water so as to separate the gold to able to be collected and melted down ,and so we saw what Genius the ancient Egyptian was

where the gold was extracted?

Gold is frequently in Egyptian territory between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea , in particular, in the area that is bounded to the north by the Lighthouse short and bordered to the south Sudan border , and most particularly areas of old Kush(south of the 2^nd cataract in northern Sudan) , no gold was found in the Sinai Peninsulaand the Egyptians ancients were considered one of the most talented researchers for gold as they didn’t found out anything may contain gold and leave it.

Goldsmith

Gold makers in ancient Egypt Excelled so much in the use of gold and it was occupied the first place in jewelery-making to the ancient Egyptian, and the reason is the presence of gold in the Egyptian territory and easily obtained and processed relatively easily from other the rest of the metals second, and also the lack of susceptibility to corrosion or damage does not lose its luster and shine elegance and abundance of use, and actually the evidence can be seen through what was keeping some of the effects of gold as the skill which they were excelled by the Egyptians makers of gold through those effects golden assures that the formulation of gold and the use of it currently does not differ much from the wording ancient Egyptian possibly very simple details have emerged because of the sophistication and experience across long ages, gold was drafted either roads or by casting into molds Asrh and puts it into molds and managed to also drilled and etching it, and sometimes the manufacturers they convert to sheets of high-order cover their coffins and tables in this case, they installed them by screws of gold or b adhesive If this is a very thin sheet Neither nails, and they managed to chemists prove the existence of egg whites between these adhesives.

Use of gold in inlaying

the ancient Egyptian inlaid copper, silver with gold and that was done by placing the plates of gold metal on the other required metal and knocked on or installed it with adhesive probably it was gum or glue

Coloring gold 

one Of the most prominent features ancient Egyptian gold is the variety of colors, where there was yellow bright and this was considered pure gold, almost a pale yellow or dark, and this was often contain a proportion of silver and copper, which are oxidized by their exposure due to the atmosphere, and brown oblique red and this contains a percentage of copper, iron, and red shades, and that was said by the chemists that it is because of the pollution  of gold with organic matters