We know that gold has always been seen as valuable – but have you ever stopped to consider why? It’s easy to assume ‘it just is’, but if we look at the ways in which different civilizations have functioned, grown, and traded throughout history; the use of gold features heavily. But how did this most noble of the noble metals (which formed from supernova dust and landed on Earth via asteroids for the most part) become our most prized metal of choice?