Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...

The hoard may include a princess's gold ring. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A medieval hoard brimming with silver ingots, gold ...

For much of the 12th century, Sweden was not yet a unified state. Regional rulers, shifting alliances and religious ...

Some used pandemic downtime to learn how to crochet or brew a batch of kombucha. In Scotland, many escaped the boredom of lockdown restrictions by taking up metal detecting—so much so the country’s ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD. The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough to ...

A Norwegian man recently came forward to disclose that he had found several medieval coins as a child and hid them for six decades – until now. Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes told Møre og Romsdal County ...

A newly discovered medieval Chinese coin, the second ever found in England, points to the possible existence of a vast medieval trade route spanning much of the Eastern hemisphere. Discovered via a ...

BHOPAL-A remarkable archaeological find has stirred excitement in Sagoriyapura village of Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, where more than 50 ancient coins—believed to be made of silver and ...

In a remarkable twist of fate, a fisherman’s routine search for worms near Stockholm, Sweden, led to the unearthing of an early medieval treasure trove. The discovery, a cauldron filled with up to ...

Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest Europe. But what was the source of all that silver? According to a recent paper published in the ...

Archaeologists think the coin dates to the first years of the region's rule by the Ottoman Empire. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...