Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable hoard of gold coins thought to be more than 2,000 years old in an ancient Greek city. The coins—likely dated to the 5th ...

Experts were stunned when a hidden gold coin collection, secretly stored in a house wall in Castillonnès, France, sold for ...

An ancient Greek city in modern-day western Turkey was the setting for the finding of gold coins dating back thousands of years. Researchers led by University of Michigan archaeologist Christopher ...

The Greek historian Thucydides documented the ... [Related: These ‘fake’ ancient Roman coins might actually be real.] Thucydides recounted that between 430 BCE. and 427 BCE., ...

Archaeologists discovered the hoard of Persian coins at the site of ancient Greek city in what is now Turkey. The money may have been intended to pay mercenary troops. The ancient Greek city of ...

THE techniques of the production of the officially issued plated coins of ancient Greece have been discussed at length by Campbell 1. In the samples examined, it was inferred that the plating had ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pot of buried treasure overflowing with ancient Greek coins in Turkey. The gold coins were found inside a room beneath a home in Notion, an ancient Greek city in ...

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