NEW DELHI – A newly released book, ‘Treasures of the Gupta Empire: A Numismatic History of the Golden Age of India,’ offers a deep dive into the coins minted during the reign of the Gupta dynasty from ...

A number of Byzantine coins discovered in China and Japan indicate that there was a trade link between the Byzantine Empire and China.

May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that of ...

The Hagia Sophia is one of the most significant buildings in world history, located in Istanbul. It was originally constructed in the 6th century as a Christian cathedral under the Byzantine Empire.

The site is linked historically with Saint Sabbas, one of the founders of Judean Desert monasticism, whose legacy shaped monastic practices for centuries. The Civil Administration’s Archaeology Unit ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

An excavation in Senon, France, unearthed three amphorae full of ancient Roman coins that had been buried under the floor of what was once a living room. This region of France was once populated by a ...

Archaeologists from the University of Haifa announced the discovery of a rare cache of Byzantine-era gold coins during excavations in the ancient city of Hippos (Sussita), near the Sea of Galilee. The ...

When Hunter Hicks first took a serious interest in collecting rare coins, his parents grew concerned. Their son’s hobby didn’t exactly match that of other preteen boys. “Oh,” they’d ask him, “you’d ...