GHENT, N.Y. — This winter I made a concerted, and frankly impressive, effort to purge our basement of ancient files. I found it a challenge any longer to make the argument that the voluminous notes I ...
Two metal detectorists have just discovered a collection of 1,000-year-old Viking coins on the Isle of Man, a small self-governing British crown dependency located in the middle of the Irish Sea ...
Found close to Frey’s room above The Shady Tree bar to the West of the Lower City square. Exit Frey’s room, then make a U-Turn to the left. Get to the walkway running parallel to the city wall, then ...
HOUSTON, Texas -- Kenny Duncan Jr remembers when a woman walked into his business with a Ziploc bag filled with old coins. Inside was a special Morgan silver dollar that was worth thousands of dollars ...
A cache of old coins found in a Welsh field were determined to be about 2,000 years old, according to the experts who analyzed them and believe the treasure was buried during the Roman Empire. David ...
A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around ...
With all the recent news about the U.S. Mint discontinuing the Lincoln cent, coins have become a frequent topic of conversation around here. If it seems a straightforward enough decision — the mint ...
The coins — believed to be from the 980s — were discovered in a Danish cornfield last autumn Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...
A metal detectorist discovered a Byzantine era hoard of gold coins and jewelry near the Sea of Galilee. Archaeologists near ...
British historians recently announced the remarkable discovery of a 1,000-year-old Viking "wallet," thanks to two curious metal detectorists. Manx National Heritage, an organization based on the Isle ...
New pictures of coins from a 300-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Colombia help tell the story of the ship's journey. More than 300 years ago, June of 1708, British forces attacked a Spanish ...
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed five gold coins dating to the time of the emperor Justinian the Great (ruled from A.D. 527 to 565). Although it is not unusual to discover coins during ...