The ancient silver coins feature the images of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius.

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation ...

Have you ever seen a bunch of coins on a headstone and wondered why they were there? They weren’t placed there by ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

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Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

Today is Good Friday, when Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Christ. With the markets closed in observance, I thought ...

Judas Iscariot's death is told in two conflicting Bible accounts—one of remorse and hanging, the other of a gruesome fall in a cursed field.

On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins. Some believed it to be an abandoned, run-down castle. Others ...

Once looted from tombs, hidden in homes, and trafficked across borders, the precious artefacts that were stolen from Italy’s ancient past have been recovered and are on show for the world to see once ...

Archaeologists discovered coins, fragments and ruins dating back to the late Roman period during a dig at St Michael's School in 2018. They unearthed the corner of the main facade of a basilica ...

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 ...