A 800-year-old cache of gold jewelry and silver coins was discovered in northern Germany. And where there’s newly unearthed gold, there’s quite likely an amateur metal detectorist who located it.
Hundreds of ancient coins, oil lamps and gold jewelry have been discovered in Israel, mysteriously thrown away centuries ago in a Byzantine garbage dump. The excavation site is located on the ...
Bronze rings uncovered from the excavation site, located on the outskirts of the ancient Israeli city of Arsuf. ASSAF PERETZ/ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY Hundreds of ancient coins, oil lamps and gold ...
Archaeologists near the Sea of Galilee have discovered a rare, nearly 1,400-year-old hoard of gold coins and jewelry dating to the Byzantine era. The hoard contained 97 pure gold coins and dozens of ...
Papers originally presented at a conference held at the British Museum and King's College, London, May 27-29, 2008. The six techniques of pierced jewellery in Late Antiquity and their evolution / ...
A large refuse pit at the ancient site of Apollonia-Arsuf has turned out to be anything but ordinary. Instead of just waste, archaeologists uncovered hundreds of Byzantine-era artifacts, including ...
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