A guard protecting ancient sites in northern Greece has been charged with involvement in a crime ring smuggling out artefacts and selling them abroad, police officials said on Friday.

BCE hoplite panoply, on loan from Louis Dounis, in its Heroes and Hoplites exhibition—likely Australia’s only display of this ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery of what lies beneath a temple and is considered to be a "geometric miracle".

The Bank of Hindostan, General Bank of Bengal and Bengal Bank became the first banks in India to issue paper currency in the ...

Walking into the ruins of an ancient tomb in southern Greece, archaeologists inadvertently joined a centuries-long tradition. The 2,400-year-old tomb had seen all manner of visitors from mourners to ...

Coin weights were the pocket-sized guardians of fair trade. Before modern banking, coin weights ensured fair transactions and ...

Athens' oldest coins were created from silver originating around the world, a study suggests, revealing an unknown ancient ...

Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and her colleagues were responsible for the ...

The long-lost city of Aten, near Luxor, was initially discovered in 2021 and has now been fully excavated, offers insights into ancient gold extraction methods.

The first coins were struck in the British Isles 2000 years ago using designs copied from Greek coins. Following the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43, the Roman coinage system was introduced. After ...

Egyptian officials have announced that a 3,000-year-old mining settlement, known as the "Lost City of Gold," has been ...