CONTENTS

Introduction: In Search of Gold

1  Wearable Gold

2  Gold, Religion and Power

3  Gold as Money

4  Gold as a Medium of Art

5  From Alchemy to Outer Space: Gold in Science

6  Dangerous Gold

REFERENCES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

ASSOCIATIONS AND WEBSITES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX

Seated goddess with a child, Hittite Empire, central Anatolia, c. 14th–13th century BCE.