A trove of ancient coins and gems has been unearthed in northern Italy, marking the latest treasure discovery in an ongoing archaeological effort to explore Claterna, a bygone city described by ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One night two decades ago, in a valley outside Jerusalem, a group of looters dug up a startling piece of ancient Jewish history: A silver quarter shekel ...

Luxembourg officials recently announced that an "extremely rare" cache of gold coins from the fourth century A.D. has recently been unearthed, ending an excavation project that was four years in the ...

A gold coin from the first century B.C.E. featuring Brutus, the close ally and assassin of Julius Caesar, is anticipated to sell for more than $1.1 million at an auction in Switzerland. The profile of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable hoard of gold coins thought ...

Colorado Springs author and lifelong numismatist Kennett Bressett sits in the library of the American Numismatic Association, surrounded by the 21 books he's written on the subject of numismatics, the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A rare ancient coin dated to the time of the First Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire has been discovered in the ...

At the end of a talk for the American Numismatic Society on using coins in the classroom, History Assistant Professor Jane Sancinito made an appeal to collectors who find fakes mixed in with real ...

When a 13-year-old schoolboy discovered a small coin in a field on the outskirts of Berlin, he knew that he’d stumbled onto something special. But it wasn’t until scholars analyzed the object that ...