A Roman silver coin hoard worth almost the same as a legionary's monthly wage in the 2nd Century has been uncovered by a ...

From Lydia to Lady Liberty, numismatists love a good story. Many coins are a chapter in a much bigger story of art, politics, and people.

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS.The post Third-century queen, target of Syrian government, ...

Near Bentfeld, Germany, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old wooden well, initially mistaken for a livestock watering hole. The well, along with other artifacts, offers insights into the ...

American Catherine Tondelli won a trip to Rome, Italy in the summer of 1999. On her first night, she threw three coins in the ...

For more than a century, archeologists have looked for proof that a complex in Ithaca was related to Odysseus, now they have ...

For centuries, depictions of Cleopatra have emphasised her beauty and romantic entanglements – much more so than her ...

The museum added, “To reinforce the historical context, the exhibition is complemented by a selection of this type of coin, ...

Sheffield Castle once stood at the confluence of two rivers in the north England city, surviving for centuries until it was repurposed in the 17th and 18th centuries as part of the Industrial ...

"Of course, we've no way of knowing whose it was, but it could have been lost by one of the invaders," said coin expert Adrian Marsden. The Roman Republic lasted from 509 to 27BC and a series of ...