It came from the stars and still dazzles us today. But why is gold believed to be a “store of wealth” – and where is it kept?

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In 2024, one paper posits that 19th-century South African rock art might be an example of this, depicting a prehistoric creature called a dicynodont that went extinct 250 million years ago.