The bronze and copper coins were originally minted in ... That would make this one of the largest ancient coin finds in the past few decades. And, if we’re lucky, it may even point to a ...

Before coins, the objects were “commodity ... to the dawn of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The copper currency research is part of a project to study a peculiar practice throughout ancient ...

Buried below the ancient ruins is a lode of copper ore ... of Siddhartha Gautama before he became the Buddha. Cascades of copper coins from the third to seventh centuries A.D. have also spilled ...