Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the ...

Approximately 160 coins minted around 80 B.C. were discovered stashed in the walls of a building in the Jordan Valley. The ancient coins include inscriptions that tie to Alexander Jannaeus, king of ...

Human civilization doesn't get much more ancient than China, whose history dates back more than 5,000 years and whose global ...

One coin was so badly rusted that it was impossible to tell whether it had any writing on it. However, researchers can still tell that it was an ancient Chinese circular coin with a square hole.

During excavations of the tomb of ancient Chinese Emperor Liu He ... Excavations at Liu He’s tomb have revealed 2 million coins as well as thousands of remarkable artifacts. Over the past decade, more ...

Athens, Greece – In a landmark repatriation effort, Greece returned 1,055 ancient coins to Turkey after they were confiscated at the Kipi border crossing in July 2019. The coins, dating from the 5th ...

The artifacts spanned the eastern and central regions of ancient China and the Yangtze River basin. “Its discoveries testify to the initial exchanges of early Chinese civilization, providing ...

Lina Mendoni delivered the 7th BC to 5th BC century coins to her Turkish counterpart Mehmet Nuri Ersoy. Credit: Orestis Panagiotou/AMNA On Thursday Greece is set to return 1,055 ancient Lydian ...

The scale and complexity of these ecosystems offer rare insights into ancient environments. Another stunning sinkhole in China is the Dashiwei Tiankeng in Guangxi province. It is 1,148 feet deep, with ...

Using synthetic biology techniques, researchers from China's Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology discovered a new pattern in virus transmission. The study, published in the Proceedings of ...

A group of researchers from Florida and Italy recently discovered trace amounts of a hallucinogenic concoction in an Ancient Egyptian drinking mug in the Tampa Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

High on a mountain in China, Indigenous tea growers are using ancient techniques to create a premium tea that has never been more popular. Dai tea growers pluck leaves in Da Ping Zhang ...