4000 - 2500 B.C.

4000 B.C.
There is some archeological evidence to suggest that a culture, based in what is today Eastern Europe, started to use gold to create decorative objects. The gold was probably mined in the Transylvanian Alps or the Mount Pangaion area in Thrace.

3000 B.C.
buy gold: sumner civilisationIn Southern Iraq, the Sumer civilization used gold to create a variety of jewellery, often using sophisticated styles which are still popular today. The Sumer was a civilisation and a region located in Southern Iraq which is unsuprisingly known as the Cradle of Civilisation. They were a relatively sophistocated civilisation and were responsible for the development of writing.




2500 B.C.
Egyptologists have proved through excavations that at this time, gold jewellery was buried with the King of the First Egyptian Dynasty at Abydos in Egypt.


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