A painting found in Pompeii depicting eggs, bronze dishes and two small birds hung on a wall Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On the Spanish island of Mallorca, a researcher has discovered a ...

It is the size of a fingernail with battered edges to match. But this silver coin, discovered in a field, could be worth up to £80,000 if proved to be a genuine Roman antique. Colin Popplewell, 58, ...

Metal detectorists and archaeologists unearthed over 400 of ancient British, Roman and African coins linked to a military conquest, photos show. Photo from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the ...

A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off for ...

Authorities in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany, have announced the discovery of one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever uncovered in the region. The announcement follows a change of heart ...

Archaeologists and physicists are at loggerheads over ancient Roman lead—a substance highly prized by both camps for sharply diverging reasons. Very old lead is pure, dense and much less radioactive ...

Joint replacement surgery or arthroplasty is a surgical procedure used to replace damaged joints (usually in the hip, knee or shoulder) with artificial implants. These implants are usually made of ...

A rare 24-carat gold coin almost 2,000 years old has been discovered by an amateur metal detectorist in a field in Kent, England, near the site of an ancient Roman road. Now it could sell for as much ...

Amateur archaeologist Patrick Schuermans was wandering around a field in northern Belgium when his metal detector alerted him to the presence of something underfoot. When he located the item in ...