A gold Roman coin celebrating the conquest of Britain by Emperor Claudius — a coin first discovered in 1895 in the ashes of Pompeii — has sold at auction for nearly $22,400. The gold coin that marks ...

Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a line of gold coins, which feature emperors, on a black background. When Christianity was becoming increasingly dominant in the ...

Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this week. The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands' Cultural ...

Archaeologists are studying a valuable trove of old Roman coins found on the site of a former theater in northern Italy. The coins, hundreds of them, date back to the late Roman imperial era and were ...

A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off for ...

Two shipwrecks discovered off the coast of Caesarea, situated on the Mediterranean coast, have yielded a remarkable concentration of artifacts dating to the Roman and Mamluk periods, two eras ...

A new study reveals that several Roman coins discovered in 1713, which were previously believed to be fake, are actually authentic - highlighting the evidence that the ruler depicted on one of the ...

Archaeologists are studying a valuable trove of old Roman coins found on the site of a former theater in northern Italy. The coins, hundreds of them, date back to the late Roman imperial era and were ...