"All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments", proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (first to second century A.D.), the Roman poet. Today, 20,000 sesterces would be ...

Workers lifting a living room floor in a quiet French village expected dust and concrete, not a buried fortune. Instead, they exposed three ceramic jars packed with an estimated 40,000 Roman coins, a ...

Two thousand years ago, the Roman Army embarked on a far-flung hunt for silver. A new discovery reveals how close they came to finding an empire-altering fortune. Roman money, like this coin bearing ...

What may have been a Roman soldier’s monthly paycheck has emerged from under the ground, officials announced this month. British officials recently unveiled the discovery of a 1,900-year-old Roman ...

Archaeologists working in the ancient Roman city of Suasa discovered a “main street” full of pottery and coin production. The research team said that the find includes an “extraordinary quantity of ...

Authorities in Israel seized hundreds of ancient coins dating to the Hellenistic world, shaped by Alexander the Great.