BUCHAREST, ROMANIA—Gold and silver coins and jewelry looted from the ancient Dacian capital of Sarmizegetusa Regia have been recovered by police from a German auction house. One man has been ...

Among the stolen items were the golden Helmet of Coțofenești and three Dacian royal bracelets from Sarmizegetusa Regia, both considered treasures of Romania's national heritage.

Sarmizegetusa, high in the central mountains, was once the capital and sacred center of the Dacians, a civilization crushed by the Roman Emperor Trajan in two bloody wars more than 1,900 years ago.

A Kiwi actor has caused a stir after performing a naked haka at a 'sacred' place in Romania. Manu Bennett performed the act at Sarmizegetusa Regia, a Unesco World Heritage site in the ancient ...

Looters unearthed some two dozen of the bracelets—12 have now been recovered by authorities—about ten years ago at the Sarmizegetusa Regia archaeological site in Romania's Transylvania region ...

One of the three stolen Dacian bracelets from Sarmizegetusa Regia (50 BCE) that was on loan from the National History Museum of Romania (photo by Marius Amarie, courtesy the Drents Museum) ...

The bracelets, which date to around 50 B.C.E., were uncovered in Sarmizegetusa Regia, the ancient Dacian capital, and feature spiraling gold loops.

In total, four golden objects are missing from the museum. They included three royal bracelets and the ancient helmet of Coțofenești. The helmet was on loan from the National History Museum of ...

The Shannara Chronicles' actor travelled to the Sarmizegetusa Regia - a Unesco World Heritage Site in the ancient capital of Dacia. Among the stone fortifications, thought to date back to AD2, he ...

WARNING: Nudity Police were called after Kiwi action star Manu Bennett performed a naked haka at an ancient world heritage site in Romania. The 49-year-old ...