New radiocarbon dating at the Huqoq sanctuary in the Galilee puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, ...

Hidden for more than two millennia, the Le Câtillon II hoard is the largest Celtic coin trove ever discovered. But was it a ...

The gold coin was discovered over 300 years ago in Transylvania, but up until recently it was kept tucked away in a museum ...

The UK is home to many ancient sites, but few are as fascinating as the abandoned Roman gold mines hidden in the Welsh ...

Soft copper wire 18 gauge ( wire diameter 1mm ) : 35cm ( about 14 inch) 26 gauge ( wire diameter 0.4mm ) : 2 strands, each 70cm ( about 27 inch) ...

Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman artifact. The small item — possibly buried as an offering 1,800 years ago ...

A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins spanning two centuries has been discovered in a field by a detectorist. The denarii date from the late Roman Republic to the reign of Marcus Aurelius and his wife ...

Crews uncovered plenty more, including Ptolemaic bronze coins, terracotta figurines depicting human and animal forms from the Greco-Roman period, small stone statues of deities such as Bastet and ...

One intriguing skeleton, however, is a 35- to 50-year-old Hun woman with an elongated skull who was buried with gold earrings at the site of Pusztataskony in Hungary in the first half of the fifth ...

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 ...

Coin moulds which were used for counterfeiting money during Roman times are to go on display in a West Yorkshire museum. The moulds were discovered at Ackton Meadows in Castleford and are thought ...