More than a decade ago, metal detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles unearthed what proved to be the world's largest Iron ...
What they initially mistook for a modern coin turned out to be part of a surprising cache of 1,500-year-old Roman gold coins, perfectly preserved from the twilight years of the Western Roman Empire.
The Bible teaches us when the Pharisees were trying to frame Jesus with a crime of lawlessness, He responds showing them a double-sided Roman coin and told them “Render to Caesar the things that ...
Do you like history? I do. And I’m not sure why except that, I think it’s interesting to imagine those earlier times and then try to imagine yourself in that ...
The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.
BC: Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators in Rome.. 270AD: St Nicholas, ...
A silphium-like plant from today and a Cyrenean coin stamped with the shape of the ... Pliny the Elder, the Roman 1st-century AD author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, called this extract ...
The newest coins date from about A.D. 175 during the reign of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who died in 180. | Credit: Andrew Williams/Norfolk County Council Metal detectorists in the east of ...
The gold Roman coin, which is of the emperor Aulus Vitellius and is believed to have been crafted in AD69, will be the centrepiece of the Specialist Coin auction at Fieldings Auctioneers in ...
Councillors Tony Wallis, Hannah Appleyard and Richard Forster show off coin moulds from the collection Coin moulds which were used for counterfeiting money during Roman times are to go on display ...
A collection of Roman coins found by a metal detectorist in Leicestershire has sold for almost three times their estimate at auction. Bathroom fitter David Dunn only started metal detecting a couple ...