Apollodotus II is known for issuing bilingual coins with Greek and Kharosthi (script) inscriptions called drachmas, which had ...

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 century B.C.—were found ...

Excavations in Vadnagar, Gujarat, revealed coin moulds used for creating replicas of Indo-Greek coins, indicating the town's ...

Police in Greece dismantled two sophisticated criminal organizations involved in large-scale antiquities smuggling.

The gold coins were found inside a room beneath a home in Notion, an ancient Greek city in western Turkey. They feature the figure of a kneeling archer, a design element used for the Persian daric ...

Ahmedabad: During the excavation at Vadnagar, which lasted for a decade from 2014 to 2024, one of the finds that surprised ...

Not only did the coin become the major international currency of the ancient world, but it also financed the creation of a navy which ensured Greece’s victory over a Persian invading force in ...

[Related: Ancient, surprisingly well-preserved purple dye uncovered in Greece.] What are darics? According to University of Michigan archaeologist Christopher Ratté, the coins show a figure of a ...

Italy’s Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli meets Lina Mendoni in Athens and pledges cooperation for the return of the ...

A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 million this week. Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led ...

Greece is finding international allies in its ongoing fight to win back the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum in ...