The two gold coins were minted almost 2,300 years ago, around the mid-third century B.C. "This makes them part of a very ...

The post 1,400-year-old gold coins found at Christian monastery in Judean Desert appeared first on The Times of Israel.

If I stumble on an old coin or bill in a drawer, my first instinct might be to clean it up or rush to sell it, but those snap ...

A German metal detectorist located a massive Roman silver hoard in 2017, but for the last eight years, he’s kept it hidden from government officials. Made public this year, the hoard was illegally ...

Found in a field in Saxony, the nearly pure gold coin is now considered the oldest ever found in the region. Dubbed a “rainbow cup,” the coin still bears distinguishing designs. Like a treasure at the ...

The hundreds of silver coins were found over the summer on a shipwreck that is believed to have been part of a lost fleet of up to a dozen Spanish treasure ships known today as the 1715 Fleet, ...

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have revealed a trove of coins, gold jewelry and other artifacts that date to about 2,500 years ago, during the region's Celtic period. According to a translated ...

The gold coin unearthed by a metal detectorist in a field in Gundorf, northwest of Leipzig in Germany, may be small, but it belies a considerable history. The Saxon State Office of Archaeology, to ...

When you were a kid, you might have played “treasure hunter” in your parents’ or grandparents’ attic, digging through old trunks or chests of drawers for imaginary pirates’ gold. You probably never ...