WAFTING their metal detectors over rolling ­farmland, George Powell and Layton Davies dreamt of striking it rich. Like the hapless characters in BBC show Detectorists, the pair had tramped the ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

Archaeologists now believe 4th Century remains unearthed in Colchester are probably those of Britain's earliest known church.

Banerjee, an intrepid explorer and talented epigraphist, worked for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) when the country ...

Stack’s Bowers Galleries is pleased to announce the first-ever public appearance and offering of a 1945 Franklin Delano ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla continued the royal tradition of distributing Maundy money ahead of Easter, after the monarch ...

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

Archaeologists in Oman uncovered a 4,000-year-old musical instrument, a pair of copper cymbals, in the ruins of an ancient ...

Reviving a forgotten Roman and Indian trade route could contain China, unite America’s allies, and reshape the global order.

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...

The Royal Mint urges anyone with coins of an unknown value to call on their expert team. The website explains: “We have an authentication and valuation service for British coins made by The Roy ...