I am a pretty hopeless churchgoer but whenever I have attended a service in our village I have found myself talking to a nice old boy who has always gone out of his way to make me feel welcome.

Most major archaeological discoveries don't start with anything dramatic. They start with a gravel pit. That's exactly what happened in Cham, a small municipality in the canton of Zug in central ...

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar?

A seemingly unremarkable foreign coin, once used to pay for a bus ride in Leeds, England, in the 1950s, has been identified as a rare 2,000-year-old artifact from an ancient Mediterranean civilization ...

James Edwards, chief cashier for Leeds Transport Company in the 1950s, put aside any fake or foreign coins he found, passing ...

Metal detectorists have discovered two "exceptionally rare" lead blocks on farmland in west Wales. The ingots date back almost 2,000 years to AD87, based on lettering written on the objects, which ...

A casual swim off Sardinia turned into something remarkable. Near Arzachena, a diver spotted metal glinting faintly on the seabed. Curiosity sparked immediately. Authorities were alerted. What they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cross-section view of a coin deposit in its pit. Archeologists recently discovered over 40,000 Roman-era coins during a dig in a ...

A proposal to mint a $1 coin with Donald Trump's image is stirring debate, drawing parallels to ancient Rome's numismatic practices. The coin could commemorate the US's 250th independence anniversary ...

The French city of Arles has long been famous for its Roman history and well-preserved ancient ruins. Still, it came as a thrilling discovery for archaeologists when they uncovered more than 800 Roman ...

A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 million this week. Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with sycophants ...