India's historical currency pieces, ranging from cowrie shells to coins like the Half Anna, Durmi, and Paisa, reflect the ...
The rules: On a squid-shaped court, players split into two teams: offense and defense, decided by a coin toss. The offense must hop on one foot until they cross ... there’s an odd number and ...
Archaeologists have struck actual gold in the village of Holztem in Parc Hosingen, Luxembourg—unearthing a trove of 141 ancient Roman coins worth more than €300,000 ($310,000). The four-year ...
The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...
Archaeologists and students recently discovered a treasure trove consisting of 160 ancient coins during an excavation in Israel. The discovery, which was announced by the University of Haifa on ...
A diver just stumbled upon a bounty of ancient coins off the coast of Italy. Cultural ministers believe the that find could point toward an unknown lost shipwreck in the region. The bronze and copper ...
From busy ancient markets where traders arrived from all corners of the globe to British-colonial India, coins were, as anywhere else on the globe as the lifeblood of commerce and trade.
Associate Professor and Director, Ancient Israel Program ... and gold everyone had been using to buy and sell things into coins with their emblem on it, and forced everyone living in their ...
They turned the silver and gold everyone had been using to buy and sell things into coins with their emblem on it, and forced everyone living in their territory to use it. But the face value of ...
According to a release from Museums Worcestershire, a trove of 1,368 silver and gold coins from the Iron Age and Ancient Rome were found by an anonymous metal detectorist searching an unnamed area ...
The most recent find is one of many discoveries of ancient treasure in Europe over the past few months. Last week, English officials announced that they discovered a 1,000-year-old hoard of coins ...