A collector hid his treasure from the Nazis, his widow kept it secret for decades, but now Roman aurei, Greek staters and ...

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 ...

Only her coin portraits—issued in her lifetime ... They were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra about as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor. She and her 10-year-old brother assumed ...

The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...

Schliemann's haul from Troy, on view at the Neues Museum in Berlin Public domain via Wikimedia Commons But whether the ancient residents of Troy truly sipped wine out of these goblets has long ...

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation ... to unearth "grave goods" at the site, consisting of coins, lamps and small vases. The discoveries then ...

A powerful storm in the Aegean Sea has triggered flash flooding on the Greek holiday island of Paros. Torrential rain in the tourist towns of Parikia and Naousa caused floodwaters that surged ...

Steve Clarke's side took the lead thanks to a debatable penalty before VAR rescued them in a second half that Greece dominated, with the hosts denied an equaliser and a late penalty by the technology.