BCE, the Romans began using the silver denarius as their standard form of currency. As the Republic grew in size and stature, ...

Since civilization began, 187,200 tonnes of gold have been mined. If made into a 5-micron wire, it could circle Earth 1.12 ...

Roman silver coins found by a metal detector user near Mansfield Woodhouse in 2007 have gone on public view for the first ...

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

Julius Caesar’s conquest of France ... At the end of a tiring day, he sat on a park bench and counted the coins people had given him. His mind wandered and he dreamed of better times.

Before Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, the Roman year followed a 10-month, 304-day lunar calendar. As a result, the calendar fell quickly out of sync with the passage of the Earth ...

Before Julius Caesar came along, coins just had a nice eagle or Greek god on them – right up until Rome’s answer to Kanye West had the brainwave to put his own mug on there. So Trump on the ...

AN ULTRA-rare coin has sold for a price 10 thousand times its original face value - and it has one key detail. The "extremely rare" 50p coin is "a must-have for any coin collector" and is being ...

Minnesota Timberwolves star Julius Randle will almost certainly exercise the opt-out in his contract after this season, meaning that for him to remain with the team, he and the organization would ...

Fulton, N.Y. — A Central Square contractor has been charged with stealing expensive coins and liquor from a home he was working on, State Police said. Shaun P. Sharp, 37, was arrested by State ...