Shipwrecks can reveal information about traded goods and even which rituals people partook in centuries ago. Shipwrecks can ...

Numismatic experts say counterfeit coins are rampant. The US Mint says its new laser technology is a means to deter forgeries ...

D uring excavations of Givati Parking Lot, the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a tiny and special gold coin in the soil that belonged to Queen Berenice II, the wife of Egyptian king Ptolemy ...

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A study released by the University of Haifa showed that silver functioned as money in the Land of Israel as early as 3,600 ...

Oceans have long hidden the remains of ships that never completed their journeys. Many went down with vast amounts of cargo.

A vast trade network likely linked the ancient inhabitants of Southeast Asia’s jungles and coastlines, a two-millennia-old trove of silver coins suggests.A study led by researchers at the National ...

We know that people have valued gold and silver for thousands of years, but new evidence reveals that people were using the metals in a much more sophisticated way earlier than originally thought.