From ancient Rome to Qing China, Auction 52 at Stephen Album Rare Coins offers 3,550 historic treasures across four days of ...

BCE, the Romans began using the silver denarius as their standard form of currency. As the Republic grew in size and stature, ...

After the death of Alexander the Great, a eunuch named Philetaerus established the ancient Greek city of Pergamon a major ...

Have you ever seen a bunch of coins on a headstone and wondered why they were there? They weren’t placed there by accident—after all, cemeteries aren’t exactly the places people go to empty their ...

Located in the Selçuk district of Izmir, the Ephesus Museum offers visitors a rich historical experience with its collection ...

Some of the golden ages Mr Norberg describes will be familiar to readers, but he adds fresh details and provocative arguments ...

Childhood passes in the blink of an eye and before you know it'll be too late to do so many of the things you wanted to do ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

It was filled with ancient metal artifacts ... One such brooch, adorned with a polished gemstone and a silver leaf, dated to the late fourth or early third century B.C.E. Another brooch was ...

The ring at the center of The Lord of the Rings, the classic fantasy epic by J.R.R. Tolkien, may have been inspired by an ancient Roman artifact currently on display in a Tudor mansion in England.

Archaeologists were preparing for the construction of a new housing development when they found more than 100 equine skeletons dating to the second century C.E.