During a routine archaeological monitoring operation carried out during construction work in the town of Aegerten, in the ...

Archaeologists and amateurs armed with metal detectors have discovered previous hoards from centuries past. Here's a look at ...

David Olusoga tells the story of the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I. David Olusoga tells the story of the British Empire from its origins under Elizabeth I to the establishment of ...

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A recent study published in the journal Vegueta reveals how counterfeit coins were key to sustaining the economy in the final centuries of the Roman Empire. The research, focused on the territorium ...

In the early weeks of World War I, the German cruiser SMS Emden, under Korvettenkapitän Karl von Müller, had already devastated Allied trade routes by sinking 60% of commerce in the region. Driven by ...

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This is the sixteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of Donald Trump. (This week, ...

It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton as MP for the constituency of bucolic Mid ...

Discovered by a group of friends five years ago, an unprecedented hoard of 11th-century coins, valued at $5.58 million, will soon to be on display at The British Museum in London. On Tuesday, the ...

A metal detectorist in Germany has unearthed a hoard of nearly 3,000 Roman-era coins in an unusual place — north of the empire's defensive lines. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...