By Teo Kermeliotis (CNN) — Can a handful of ancient copper coins from a once-opulent but now abandoned corner of East Africa change what we know about Australian history? A team of researchers ...

A haul of coins from halfway across the world turned up on an archaeological site in Japan. Exactly how they got there is a fascinating mystery. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site ...

"It's an exceptional find." Archaeologists in northern Spain recently came across the largest trove of Roman-era coins ever ...

Millions of ancient looted coins from archaeological excavations enter the black market yearly, and a researcher who has seen plundered sites likens the thefts to stealing “smoking guns” from ...

Coin of the ‘emperor’ Sponsian, currently in The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, UK, catalogue number GLAHM:40333 (Pearson et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0) (CN) — Ancient Roman coins were ...

Ancient Copper Findings Shed Light on Origins of Money. Copper objects discovered in Central Europe present the earliest known standardized currency, hinting at money's earliest origins. ... Before ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Two men using metal detectors found two different sets of coins in 2018, years later it turns out they were actually ancient Roman treasure. According to the Welsh Amgueddfa ...

The hiker tucked the coins into his pocket, promising himself to do a little detective work when he returned home. Today, the mystery of how two ancient Spanish coins wound up near Lake Powell isn ...

Their work revealed that the ceramic vessel held 2,733 coins, a mix of silver and copper pieces of varying values that were crafted between 32 B.C. and 270 A.D, according to the release.

Experts examined a collection of tiny, ancient coins discovered in Egypt, according to the University of Warsaw. Piotr Jaworski/University of Warsaw More than 1,500 years ago, a thriving harbor ...