Public Domain/Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Egypt before the Romans took power, has been described as both beautiful and not so beautiful in ancient histories. The coins and ...

The 1933 Double Eagle, considered one of the rarest and most beautiful coins in America, has a face value of $20 — and a market value of $7.6 million. It was among the last batch of gold coins ...

I found a beautiful Roman quern-stone—a grindstone for food like grain—wedged into a bank, which made me think a farmer had probably thought it was just a big stone and tossed it to the side.