The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

A trove of around 15,000 rare gold and silver coins hidden from Nazis and worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million ...

In southern Greece, a monumental ancient tomb was discovered to have been used as a burial site for centuries before […] ...

Greek authorities arrested 23 individuals in Northern Greece, alleged to be part of three antiquities smuggling rings.

The Bank of Hindostan, General Bank of Bengal and Bengal Bank became the first banks in India to issue paper currency in the 18th Century. During this time, paper money was first issued in British Ind ...

Apart from silver, the coins contain a mixture of other elements ... Credit: Public Domain Peisistratus was an ancient Greek statesman who ruled Athens three times as a tyrant. His reforms laid the ...

Under the direction of Greek archaeologist Dr. Panagiota Galiatsatou and Swedish specialists Prof. Ann-Louise Schallin and Dr. Niklas Eriksson, the team has conducted a meticulous study of the seabed ...

In ancient Crete of present-day Greece, writing was used (ca 1900-1800 BCE) to keep a tab on tax payment by citizens. The undeciphered script Linear A, which was used in Crete before the Ancient Greek ...

The finding is one of the earliest detections of lead pollution in the world and shows that Greek ... smelting silver, the primary metal that Romans and Hellenistic Greeks used for coins.

The array of rare coins includes examples from the earliest Middle Eastern civilizations as well as Roman, Greek/Mediterranean, Near Eastern, Celtic Britannian, Viking, and Medieval productions. It ...

Stable value The analysis of the coins shows the earliest was made in about 57 B.C., during the late stages of the Roman Republic when Roman officials were ostensibly elected by popular vote. The ...

Four of the coins date to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, who was played by Richard Harris in the first Gladiator film, with the earliest dating from AD166 (above) A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins ...