Archaeologists think the coin dates to the first years of the region's rule by the Ottoman Empire. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

A father was encouraged by his children to take up his old hobby of metal detecting. On his first day using the new detector he dug up a medieval gold coin from the 13th century. The coin has sold at ...

CAESAREA, Israel — Israel on Wednesday unveiled the largest collection of medieval gold coins ever found in the country, accidentally discovered by amateur divers and dating back about a thousand ...

"Memento Mori" was written around the skull on the ring. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Metal detectorists in Wales have ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than $318,000 worth of gold and silver coins believed to have been used by pagans as “devil’s money” at a rare Medieval worship site in the Netherlands. A dig near ...

Money has shaped civilizations for centuries, but in Medieval Europe, it didn’t work the way we think today. The rise of banking, trade credit, and money changers transformed the economy from a simple ...

While searching a field in northern Poland, a metal detectorist unearthed a small, shiny item. It turned out to be a unique 600-year-old artifact. Daniel Kwaśniak vel Kwasniewski was using a metal ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD. The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough to ...

Just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day — two construction workers in Holland have discovered a real-life “pot o’ gold.” The workers from water company Oasen made the stunning find when they were laying ...

New quarantine hobbies have unearthed new passions, some bringing with them a literal silver lining. This year, backyard archaeologists in the United Kingdom have recorded discoveries of more than ...

Hundreds of gold and silver coins, along with jewelry and other artifacts, have been found in the Czech Republic at what ...

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