The gold coin was discovered over 300 years ago in Transylvania, but up until recently it was kept tucked away in a museum ...

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Walking into the ruins of an ancient tomb in southern Greece, archaeologists inadvertently joined a centuries-long tradition. The 2,400-year-old tomb had seen all manner of visitors from mourners to ...

MiBAC/FacebookThe crack in the stone jar revealed the hundreds of ancient Roman gold coins that were inside of it.

Coin weights were the pocket-sized guardians of fair trade. Before modern banking, coin weights ensured fair transactions and ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

Lead pollution in and around the Aegean Sea dates back to the Bronze Age and shows a strong spike associated with Roman ...

A marble statue of Hermes along with statue fragments of ancient Greek deities have been unearthed during excavations at the ...

Dead puppies, potential human sacrifices, and a painted dog penis bone—what was going on in Roman-era Britain?