The more important towns received privileged juridical status, including the right to strike coins from Roman generals during ...

An eight-sided Roman ring was recently found in Lincolnshire, England, by Wessex Archaeology staff. The item dates back to ...

Rare and exceptional artworks from the world’s most acclaimed civilizations are set to cross the auction block, including ...

In Mexico, the conquistadors found life-size figures of men and women, great jars and pitchers, half pottery-half gold vases ...

A routine travel check in Spain led to a major trove of stolen artifacts, highlighting a growing criminal trade in ancient ...

The former Saxon owner of the pendant would be sad to hear that one arm of the cross has broken in the centuries since it was ...

Among all the superlative wristwear at Cannes, one watch in particular stuck out—a gold bracelet-like piece dripping with ...

The yearlong crackdown, codenamed Operation Pandora IX, was led by Spain’s Guardia Civil with support from Europol, INTERPOL ...

A remarkable centuries-old ring was unearthed recently beneath rubble at a historic castle in Eastern Europe. The impressive ...

If you visit Taormina, Sicily—and with a direct Delta flight from JFK starting on May 23, the trip just became so much easier ...

Rare African-style figurines dating back 1,500 years were discovered in ancient Christian tombs in Israel’s Negev desert.

Sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait ... A rare gold coin dating back over two millennia to the reign of Ptolemy I — one of Alexander the Great's generals and founder of ancient Egypt's ...