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 ...

Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

An ancient Celtic coin discovered in a field in northeast England could fetch over $5,000. A metal detectorist in Lelley, East Yorkshire, discovered the gold coin that dates back to about 50 to 10 BCE ...

A rare collection of ancient coins was discovered last week by Israeli researchers, who called the find an "archaeological Hanukkah miracle." The coins are more than 2,000 years old and believed to ...

The Greek one-euro coin can rightly claim that it has roots planted deep in history with a story longer than two millennia.

An ancient Greek city in modern-day western Turkey was the setting for the finding of gold coins dating back thousands of years. Researchers led by University of Michigan archaeologist Christopher ...

In January 2019, Adam Staples and his then-partner Lisa Grace traveled to Chew Valley in Somerset, the U.K., to help a friend test their new metal detector. Walking across an unassuming field, it didn ...

Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes recently came forward to disclose that he had found several medieval coins as a child and hid them for six decades - until now. Carl-Fredrik Wahr-Hansen Vemmest A Norwegian man ...

Authorities and local police swiftly arrived, sealing the site and taking possession of the treasure to block any ...