Gold /

For millennia, across the globe, this gleaming and incorruptible element has beguiled humankind, attracting treasure seekers, artistically adorning the dead and the living and symbolically representing power, wealth, divinity and eternity. Gold embodies paradoxes. The very softness that made it ill-...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Zorach, Rebecca, 1969- (Author), Phillips, Michael W., Jr (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Reaktion Books, [2016]
Series:	Earth series (Reaktion Books (Firm))
Subjects:	Goldwork > History. Gold > History. Gold > Social aspects.