He said, 'I hope that one day I will go with my child to the museum, where I can explain how I was lucky enough to discover a ...

Coin collecting, or numismatics (a term that also includes the study of coins), has been a practice for at least 2,000 years, ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the purpose of a mysterious 1,500-year-old bucket at one of England’s most historic sites – and it wasn’t pleasant.

The Directorate of Antiquities and Museums stated that the National Museum is divided into five main sections, divided according to their historical eras. The first section is the prehistoric section, ...

Scientists have finally 'solved the puzzle' of a sixth century Byzantine bucket uncovered at the historic site in Suffolk.

The largest collection of seventh-century gold coins found in Britain, discovered in a Norfolk field, is to go on show at Norwich Castle museum.

A hoard of rare and internationally significant gold coins, found in a West Norfolk field, has gone on display in Norwich.

But beyond being symbols of wealth and status, per New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art – which holds pieces such as coin pendants and coin girdles from the Early Byzantine period (c.

Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field ... of solidi came as the standardized monetary system employed by Byzantine emperors near the beginning of the fourth century A.D ...

apparently 141 gold coins in total, manufactured under the reigns of several emperors," said Rebecca Usherwood, Assistant Professor in Late Antique and Early Byzantine Studies at Trinity College ...

In a study published in Chinese Archaeology journal in 2005, author Chen Zhiqiang wrote that by that time there were 56 gold Byzantine Empire coins found in China. They belong to the times of 14 ...

Five gold Byzantine coins discovered in the ruins of a house in northern Bulgaria are leaving archeologists with more questions than answers. Normally, coins found at such a dig site serve the same ...