Around 1,000 years ago, a remarkable gold coin with a depiction of Jesus Christ somehow made its way from the Byzantine Empire to Norway. Lost for centuries, it was just found by a metal ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient gold coins in an unexpected location during a recent excavation in Bulgaria. The five Byzantine coins, which date back to the reign of Justinian the Great ...

A metal detectorist discovered in the county of Innlandet, in inland Norway, a rare histamenon nomisma (literally standard coin), a Byzantine solid gold coin, minted in Constantinople around the year ...

The 44 solid gold coins dating back to the Byzantine era were discovered at the Hermon Stream Nature Reserve. Israel Antiquities Authority Israeli archaeologists have discovered a secret stash of ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. A treasure trove of ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed five gold coins dating to the time of the emperor Justinian the Great (ruled from A.D. 527 to 565). Although it is not unusual to discover coins during ...

It appears to be from the Byzantine Empire, and other coins like it are sometimes attributed to John III Doukas Vatatzes, who was the emperor of Nicaea — a Byzantine successor state — from ...

The coins, explains IAA numismatist Gabriela Bijovsky, were likely minted in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and were of a highly regulated denomination known as a solidus.

If this interpretation is correct, and the rare coin does show SN 1054, then it suggests that Byzantine scholars may have been forbidden from studying or writing about the supernova due to ...

Hundreds of ancient coins, oil lamps and gold jewelry have been discovered in Israel, mysteriously thrown away centuries ago in a Byzantine garbage dump. The excavation site is located on the ...

and the Netherlands suggests that this boom in coin production may have started with silver from the Byzantine Empire in the eastern Mediterranean (Antiquity 2024, DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.33).