State-level legislative efforts are making gold more practical as a medium of exchange, supporting the 'gold is money' thesis ...

A 2,300-year-old gold ring found in Jerusalem's City of David highlights the wealth and culture of the Second Temple period, according to archaeologists.

Shoppers looking for fashionable fine jewelry have been undeterred by rising prices.

Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond.