This document summarizes a passage about photographer Sebastiao Salgado's experience visiting a gold mine in Brazil called Serra Pelada. The passage describes how when Salgado reached the bottom of the vast pit, he felt chills, as he had never seen anything like it before. In a half second, he saw the entire history of mankind - the construction of the pyramids, the Tower of Babel, King Solomon's mines. The only sounds were the murmurs of the 50,000 people working there with their bare hands, with conversations and noises mixing with the sounds of physical labor. It was like traveling back to the beginning of time, and he could almost hear the gold whispering to the souls of