His funeral is being held on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square. Francis will then be buried, according to his will: in a simple underground tomb at St. Mary Major Basilica. The church is home to his ...

A 2,300-year-old coin found at the Gradishte site. Photo from California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt When the team began digging, they encountered another surprise: a small silver coin ...

A bag containing coins minted during ... Frank-Walter Steinmeier and European Council President António Costa. The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one, involving ...

A bag containing coins minted during his papacy was placed ... German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and European Council President António Costa. Pope Francis had a 12-year papacy during ...

The launch of an official Royal Mint coin in his honour marks a career first for the 82-year-old Beatle ... The tour has just started its European leg, completing the year with home shows in ...

The 2,600-year-old monument, whose name translates to ... It is claimed that the Lydians were the originators of gold and silver coins, with Lydian coins being the oldest in the world.

At Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, the saisenbako, a wooden coin box with a grated top ... maki-e gold and silver lacquer on wood with shell onlays and silver rims within its own custom ...

Right then. Memoirs, eh? Some blighter thinks his own piffle is worth the ink. Life, it seems, this grand outward shuffle from the nursery puddle to the ...

Serial fraudster and former assistant tax commissioner Nick Petroulias and his long-term associate Hussein Faraj are being ...

In 1996, England passed the Treasure Act, which makes it illegal to sell objects that are at least 300 years old with over 10 percent gold or silver content (the odd coin is exempt). A year later ...

I retrieved a rough-edged coin minted more than 1,500 years ago ... he made a remarkable discovery: two 2,700-year-old silver scrolls delicately etched with the priestly blessing that Aaron ...