In South Moravia, Czechia, archaeologists have found a bronze fragment from a Roman wrist purse which dates back 1,800 years, ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from the third and fourth centuries A.D.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that ancient Romans consumed songbirds as everyday street food, challenging long-held beliefs that these delicacies were reserved for elite banquets. The ...

The collection of over 130 Roman coins was collected by a Latin teacher from Connecticut.

A plow, spike, and yoke appear on this bronze aes denomination coin struck in ancient Obulco, Hispania. The Roman Republic took possession of the southern and eastern Iberian Peninsula (known as Roman ...

Shipwreck plunder, art among nearly 38,000 items seized in police crackdown Operation Pandora IX aims to disrupt the trade in cultural artifacts that’s grown larger and more professional since ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising evidence.

Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a gladiator's epitaph. Coins, lamps and vases were also found.

Archaeologists in Tenea found ancient Greek burial site with gold artifacts later looted & reused as ritual site in Roman era, photos show.

A man discovered a cache of over 1,000 coins from nearly 2,000 years ago by using nothing more than a metal detector.