The Panagyurishte Treasure's gold phiale is on display in a Bulgarian museum. | Biser Todorov, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 4.0 The treasure is believed to have been buried around 600-650 CE when the ...

A metal detectorist working in Lower Saxony has pulled from the soil one of the largest Roman coin hoards discovered in ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Recently, a man was walking through a field near Rold, Denmark, when he spotted two metallic objects ...

Why so many Roman coin hoards end up being buried and never found has baffled archaeologists for decades. A major new study has shown that the non-recovery of these hoarded treasures was caused by ...

Here's a look at 32 hoards that were found by people using metal detectors. In most cases, the discoveries were made by amateurs. Many of the hoards are from Britain, where the use of metal detectors ...

Using a mathematical model to predict population trends based on ancient coin hoards, a biologist and a historian have concluded that the population of ancient Rome was smaller than sometimes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hacksilver hoard from Tell el-ʿAjjul in Gaza is the earliest known example of silver used as currency by weight in the region, ...

In 2021, a man named Peter Heads made a fascinating discovery while using his metal detector in Melsonby, North Yorkshire in the UK. The find prompted him to contact Tom Moore at the Department of ...