The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

This article provides a complete list of all Roman ... II at the Battle of Mons Seleucus. Vetranio briefly rose up and took control of Illyricum during the chaos of 350, minting coins that claimed ...

An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which spanned multiple eras, were buried in a ceramic container roughly 1,700 ...

But suddenly his metal detector began beeping – and soon, Mangeac was looking at a hoard of 1,469 Roman coins. Seeing the silver denarii, Mangeac said that his heart "[was] beating quite hard." ...

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In October, a woman traveling from the sunny Mediterranean island of Mallorca to Germany was stopped by Spain’s customs police for a routine inspection. In her luggage were several seemingly ...

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