Ancient Egypt, Coins. A coin from a sunken ancient Egyptian city is pictured. Launch Slideshow 4 PHOTOS. Researchers also investigated some of the many ancient ships known to exist at the site.

Ancient Egypt can also supply the inspiration for producing gold coins, as this was a civilisation that had deep connections with gold and even saw it as somehow embodying or representing its essence.

Nine Egyptian ancient coins and a yellow copper-made candlestick, which a passenger attempted to smuggle abroad, were seized at Cairo International Airport seized on Wednesday.

Experts examined a collection of tiny, ancient coins discovered in Egypt, according to the University of Warsaw. Piotr Jaworski/University of Warsaw More than 1,500 years ago, a thriving harbor ...

Egyptian archaeologists from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) dug out 383 coins dating to the reigns of King Ptolemy III (222-246 BC) during routine excavation work north of Lake Qarun in the ...

An Egyptian paper claims that archaeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the Biblical Joseph. Israel National News - Arutz Sheva. Contact Us Search.

But just how much was 90 talents worth in ancient Egypt? Instead people made up the sum using coins that were worth varying amounts of drachma. It "would have taken 150 of these coins to make a ...

Most of those coins and ceramics date to the 500s to 300s BCE, but archaeologists almost never find anything newer than the 100s CE. Eerily, it’s like life here just stopped after the earthquake.