Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

"All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments," proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st–2nd ...

Archaeologists carrying out excavations at the ancient city of Amos in Muğla, southwestern Türkiye, have uncovered a silver ...

A collection of ancient silver coins was unearthed recently on a small island in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said this week. The treasure trove dates back more than 2,000 years, with the origins ...

Archeologists have stumbled across a collection of ancient Roman coins in western Turkey. Though the treasure trove was found in 2019, it wasn’t until this year that the researchers learned just how ...

A jug containing silver earrings and ingots has been discovered at the ancient biblical city of Abel Beth Maacah in Israel. Found to the north of a massive structure that may be a tower, the jug and ...

A new study of ancient silver hoards from Israel and Gaza suggests that metal was used as currency in the Bronze Age, hundreds of years earlier than previously suspected. When you purchase through ...

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly interpretations. It's the oldest-known cup of its kind.

For the first time, archaeologists have discovered wooden defenses surrounding an ancient Roman military base. The fence topped with sharpened wooden stakes, akin to today’s barbed wire, is the kind ...

Sicily’s Morgantina silver, repatriated to Italy by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art when the institution realized the artifacts had been stolen, will once again grace the halls of the Met, ...