1200 B.C.

In this period the Egyptian people started to employ the art of beating gold into gold leaf to increase its uses.  They also began to alloy it with other metals in order to increase its strength and to alter its colour.  They also began to use the lost-wax method for casting gold into jewellery.  This is a technique which is still used today in jewellery making.

At the same time, unshorn sheepskins were used as filters to collect gold dust from the eastern shores of the Black Sea.  Once the sheepskins were dried out they were shaken to remove the particles of gold.  This method of collecting gold is likely to have inspired the Greek Myth about the "Golden Fleece".

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