A diver stumbled across the find of a lifetime off the coast of Sardinia when a stray shiny item loosened itself from the sea ...

The effort started when amateur archaeologists discovered a single gold coin in a nearby field in Holzthum village in north Luxembourg. Experts then came in and found the base of a burgus, a fortified ...

giving the 141-coin hoard a trio of signature pieces. The use of solidi came as the standardized monetary system employed by Byzantine emperors near the beginning of the fourth century A.D. The ...

The discovery, made near the village of Holzthum in northern Luxembourg, includes 141 gold solidi, coins minted under the rule of nine Roman emperors between 364 and 408 AD. Found near the base of a ...

A hoard of rare gold Roman coins dating back to the 4th century has been found near a small ancient […] The post Rare Roman Gold Coins Were Found Near An Ancient Fort In Luxembourg, And They’re Worth ...

The coin is a Byzantine histamenon nomisma. These were introduced in Byzantium around 960 AD in what was then the eastern part of the Roman Empire. One side of the coin is stamped with an image of ...

Archaeologists from Ondokuz Mayıs University are embarking on a significant excavation project to uncover the ancient city of ...

"What makes this excavation particularly interesting is that we can trace the continuous development of urban life in this ...

A foreign national was arrested in Athens, Greece on charges of orchestrating online auctions to sell ancient Greek artifacts.

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, ...

This period saw the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean region, which hosted some of the earliest cultural centres in ancient Europe ... British hoard of 404 coins discovered in ...