Archaeologists working beneath a quiet town in northeastern France weren’t expecting anything dramatic at first, so the dig ...

A metal detectorist uncovered Scotland’s earliest known coin, shedding light on 12th-century minting during King David I’s ...

Volunteer archaeologists have discovered two Celtic gold coins, which are amongst the oldest ever found in the country.

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

Archaeologists have discovered a rare 1,400-year-old limestone mold at Hyrcania in the Judean Desert that was used to manufacture small devotional flasks for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land.

A Roman treasure of exceptional size and scientific value has been unearthed near the village of Borsum in Lower Saxony, ...

An amateur metal detectorist in Norway recently discovered what archaeologists have hailed as Norway’s “gold find of the ...

"I rang my son and said, 'You need to come – I've found a sword and there's a hand on the end of it!'" By the time his son, ...

A Roman hoard containing 450 coins and silver and gold bars has been found in Borsum, buried in a border area marked by ...

At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...

A site in Switzerland contained evidence of an administrative center that was part of a bigger plan to build a urban center that never came to fruition.