A number of Byzantine coins discovered in China and Japan indicate that there was a trade link between the Byzantine Empire ...

Coin of ancient Greek Queen of India, Agathoclea Theotropus ... It is generally safe to assume that a princess would not marry a commoner. A Roman copy of a Greek statue of goddess Athena. Credit: ...

In 1940, at the height of World War II, Italy invaded Egypt from its colony in Libya. The region later fell under the power ...

The main temple at the ancient city of Taposiris Magna has been suggested as the possible resting place of Cleopatra VII.

Ancient Greek art spans a period between about 900 and 30 BCE and is divided into four periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Throughout that period, artists worked with a wide ...

MAEBASHI--Archaeologists uncovered an estimated 100,000 ancient coins, some of which are of Chinese origin and are more than 2,000 years old. The coins were tied together in bundles with straw ...

Eros, known as Cupid in Roman mythology, was the ancient Greek god of love and desire, often depicted as a winged youth with a bow and arrow. The offerings found inside the tombs of the building ...

Archaeological work at Barham Quarry has unearthed a beautiful coin. The coin in question is a silver denarius of the later ...

An exhibition in Brooklyn examines gold's ubiquitous appeal across thousands of years through art, artifacts, paintings, ...

One of archaeology’s most fascinating mysteries began a new chapter when amateur archaeologists in England found a large Roman dodecahedron — one of 130 of the 12-sided ancient objects known ...

Recent excavations at Taposiris Magna near Alexandria have uncovered a marble bust of a woman believed to be the 'true face' ...