How often do you think about the Roman Empire? Scientists have responded by finding gold in the Pyrenees It is not only in the great mining centers of Spain that the Romans mined gold: researchers have confirmed that they used a massive hydraulic system in the eastern Pyrenees about 1,700 years ago. The results of the study were published in the journal Adama. Miners directed streams of water at gold-bearing rocks to erode them and extract metal particles. According to scientists, during the development of the field, about 2 million cubic meters of earth were moved - a scale of work that testifies to the serious engineering abilities of the Romans. The deposits date back to II–. Fourth centuries AD, although the exact time of the start and end of mining could not be determined. Traces of work and artificial canals that changed the mountain landscape have survived to this day.

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? Scientists have responded by finding gold in the Pyrenees It is not only in the great mining centers of Spain that the Romans mined gold: researchers have confirmed that they used a massive hydraulic system in the eastern Pyrenees about 1,700 years ago. The results of the study were published in the journal Adama. Miners directed streams of water at gold-bearing rocks to erode them and extract metal particles. According to scientists, during the development of the field, about 2 million cubic meters of earth were moved - a scale of work that testifies to the serious engineering abilities of the Romans. The deposits date back to II–. Fourth centuries AD, although the exact time of the start and end of mining could not be determined. Traces of work and artificial canals that changed the mountain landscape have survived to this day.