Judas Iscariot received 30 silver coins to betray Jesus and put him in the hands of Caiaphas, or in today's money, around ...

Judas Iscariot's death is told in two conflicting Bible accounts—one of remorse and hanging, the other of a gruesome fall in a cursed field.

Once looted from tombs, hidden in homes, and trafficked across borders, the precious artefacts that were stolen from Italy’s ...

The perennial popularity of botanical art ...

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

The cleverly-designed collector coin " Cabbage " was announced Latvia's Coin of the Year 2024 in the annual public survey. The coin highlights the deep symbolism of cabbage – it is associated with ...

Nick Angeloff, an archaeologist at Cal Poly Humboldt, has called the developments at Gradishte a once-in-a-lifetime discovery ...

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

Artifacts found at the site date the city back to Alexander the Great’s lifetime, though some experts suggest humans may have ...

It started with a jar of pennies. A small red and white jar, sitting in his grandfather’s house…the kind of thing most people ...

From ancient Rome to modern America, the impulse to wall off economies in times of crisis has proven consistently disastrous. Whether through tariff wars, currency debasement, or autarkic fantasies, e ...