Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this ...

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman coins ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While trekking through the Swiss Alps, a hiker came across an ancient Roman coin, buried in the rubble. After reporting ...

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 ...

A study published in the journal Britannia analyzed coins and metal items found in an early 5th-century AD burial in ...

Experts do not know how or why the enormous treasure ended up in that location, especially given the lack of other archaeological evidence in the area. An extraordinary hoard of nearly 3,000 Roman-era ...

Experts were thrilled to discover the coin on a remote island in the Scottish Orkney archipelago. The coin, which is believed to date from the mid fourth-century A.D., was found during an excavation ...

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 ...

A rare 24-carat gold coin almost 2,000 years old has been discovered by an amateur metal detectorist in a field in Kent, England, near the site of an ancient Roman road. Now it could sell for as much ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom say they have proven the authenticity of several Roman coins previously dismissed as forgeries – providing evidence that an emperor disregarded as fake might in fact ...

When archeologist Hiroyuki Miyagi heard that a bunch of ancient Roman and Ottoman coins had been unearthed from the ruins of an old castle in Okinawa, he initially thought it was a hoax. “I couldn’t ...