Ancient Gold Mines

Mines tens of thousands of years old. Someone needed gold long before money.

The Ngwenya mine in Eswatini shows ochre extraction ~40,000 years ago — real, and among the oldest mining known. Sitchin's school reads southern Africa's old workings as Anunnaki gold operations; archaeology reads ochre pigment economics. The factual core (organized mining deep in prehistory) is the hook the Anunnaki narrative hangs on.