Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

In South Moravia, Czechia, archaeologists have found a bronze fragment from a Roman wrist purse which dates back 1,800 years, ...

An estimated 200-year-old Austrian coin was found on June 19 at the Tarragindi Archeological Dig in Berrien Springs by 11-year-old Leif Sigvartsen.  The coin was a Maria Theresa “Thaler” (rhymes with ...

Excavations carried out prior to the construction of a new community and senior center in Haltern am See have brought to ...

The coin is "very rare" and bears imagery "associated with Augustus' symbolic transfer of power back to the Roman Senate after his defeat of Mark Antony" in 31 B.C., according to the auction house.

A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 million this week. Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led ...

Accompanying Augustus’ reorganization was a decrease in the number of towns from which coins were permitted to be minted. The more important towns received privileged juridical status, including the ...

A metal detectorist from Leicestershire has unearthed a “once-in-a-lifetime” hoard of 50 Roman coins. David Dunn, 42, a bathroom fitter from Sapcote, Leicestershire, was out searching a local ...

What started as a routine day of metal detecting quickly turned into a momentous outing that yielded the discovery of a lifetime. While scanning a local pasture in Leicestershire, England, bathroom ...