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

The coins featured the images of Nero, Marcus Aurelius, seven other Roman emperors and two empresses, records show. Screenshot of Facebook post by Marius Mangeac (Bebe Mangeac). A metal ...

A metal detectorist from Leicestershire has unearthed a “once-in-a-lifetime” hoard of 50 Roman coins. David Dunn, 42, a bathroom fitter from Sapcote, Leicestershire, was out searching a local ...

working among buried World War II-era bombs as they (the archaeologists, not the bombs) dug up 141 pure gold Roman coins known as solidi from the base of a Roman fortified watchtower. With ...

The excavations were "carried out with the utmost care and extended over several years," the statement said, due to land mines from World War II ... The coins include depictions of nine Roman ...

Eugenius had come to the throne with the help of the powerful generate Arbogast, emperor of the Western Roman Empire following the death of Valentinian II. Coins bearing Eugenius' image—such as ...

A team of archaeologists recently discovered a hoard of 141 Roman gold coins dating back to around ... to the danger posed from several World War II-era explosives and munitions that are buried ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed ... months after the western emperor Valentinian II was found hanged under ...

England’s Worcestershire county is raising funds to acquire a 2,000-year old trove of Iron Age and Roman gold coins that turned up last year in Leigh and Bransford. Dubbed the Worcestershire ...

Geneva (AFP) – A Roman gold coin bearing the image of Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar, will go to auction in Geneva on Monday, with bids set to start above $850,000. "A numismatist's eyes ...

A hoard of Roman coins worth over $125,000 was found during a construction project in central England. The stash of gold and silver coins date back to the reign of Rome's Emperor Nero, according ...