Taylor Swift’s new fascination with ancient coin jewelry shines a spotlight on Roman denarii, historical talismans—and maybe even coin collecting itself.

A metal detectorist in Romania set out with his machine ... according to the University of Oxford’s Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project database. The coins date back to the Roman Imperial ...

In the summer of 2024, a team of archaeologists was called in at a housing project in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district and ...

Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to ...

Some of the golden ages Mr Norberg describes will be familiar to readers, but he adds fresh details and provocative arguments ...

This set the stage for his son, Alexander the Great, to become the king of the Macedonian empire ... The discovery of an Alexander the Great-era coin first suggested that the site was from ...

The Norse ravaged much of Europe for centuries. They were also cosmopolitan explorers who followed trade winds into the Far ...

Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was said to be a fan of ... an elephant named Jumbo from the Turin zoo and set out to prove the Col du Clapier (sometimes called ...

In 164 B.C., a group of Jewish dissidents, the Maccabees, overthrew the Seleucid Empire ... set of strict regulations reminiscent of those followed by a sect of Jews mentioned in A.D. 77 by the ...