We're not exactly sure why they named May the month of Gold...but why not use it as an excuse to celebrate our favorite precious metal?! Humans have been using gold since at least 4000 B.C. as forms of payment and ways of adorning royalty. Gold is a metal that has always been recycled. All of the gold ever taken from earth has been melted and re-melted to be used again and again. The gold ring you own today may contain some of the same gold that once adorned an Egyptian princ