Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When someone stashed 44 gold coins into a wall in the seventh century, they may have hoped to one day return and find their ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...

A Byzantine gold coin that was recently discovered in the mountains of southern Norway has historians perplexed over how it got there.

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 ...

A treasure trove of 44 gold coins hidden in a wall more than 1,000 years ago has been discovered by Israeli archaeologists. The coins date back to the seventh century AD None of them are dated later ...

Between 660-750 AD, Anglo-Saxon England saw a major revival of trade and commerce. This led to a huge increase in the use of silver coins, moving away from just gold. Archaeologists have found around ...

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 ...

Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam discovered that Byzantine bullion fueled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, ...

New technique allows historians to more closely examine medieval money’s chemical composition. To determine trends in trade and cultural exchange, sometimes historians must follow the money. A team ...

When someone stashed 44 gold coins into a wall in the 7th century, they may have hoped to one day return and find their treasure again. Instead, almost 1,400 years on, the coins have been found by ...