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"We are not exilies anymore." A small group of Jews conducts a symbolic ceremony to reverse the implications of one of the ...
Rome still plays host to several structures from the city’s heyday as the capital of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Others, sadly, have long disappeared from the city’s ancient ...
The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from ...
Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now. Suetonius, writing in the first century CE, ...
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 ...
A gold shilling located by a metal detectorist near Norwich may be no larger than a fingernail, but it wields quite a bit of history—and some distinct designs. The small gold coin discovered in the ...
Following Spain’s arrival to the Americas, the kingdom began minting copper Maravedis in the early 1500s specifically for distribution among its colonies. By the discovery’s minting in 1661, Spain was ...