Historia del Oro

Did you know that the oldest worked gold in the world was not found in Egypt or Mesopotamia, nor in China or India? Or that by the end of the third millennium B.C. our ancestors were already extracting it from the subsoil? Do you know its strange chemical properties or why we choose it to compare the value of things?Throughout these pages, you will parade before you a varied gallery of characters: kings and emperors, ancient pirates and modern entrepreneurs, visionary alchemists and daring swindlers, all seduced by the irresistible glow of gold. "Where does so much attraction come from?" Well, when you've finished the book, and to paraphrase Sam Spade, that famous detective protagonist of The Maltese Falcon, you may come to the conclusion that perhaps gold is not made of protons and neutrons after all, but of the stuff that dreams are made of."