While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Archaeological excavations at Vellalore in Coimbatore reveal Kongu region's ancient trade links and rich history.

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

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

Noonans offered the Sapcote hoard in a recent auction, in which all of the coins were purchased by a U.S.-based buyer for ...

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 ...

Over the course of their history, the Romans built a complex and dense network of sewers in the city of Rome. However, only ...

New copper pennies vanished from circulation in 1982 — 73 years after the first Lincoln penny was minted. They were replaced ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

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 ...