In this episode of History Seekers, we set out in search of old silver coins and rings—but what we uncovered was far more intense. Alongside silver jewelry and colonial-era copper coins, we discovered ...

Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human ...

Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown — for a five-day immersion into history with Road Scholar. Each site brought surprises ...

One of the new banknote will depict the national martyrs' memorial for those who died in the independence war against ...

A cryptocurrency is a digital asset purchased with real money but traded through a computer network using technology. The ...

So what will the demise of the penny actually mean for the average U.S. citizen? Taking the penny out isn’t actually supposed ...

The combination of “copper” and “penny” might not seem like the best formula for valuable coins considering that you can find higher denominations in gold and silver. But finding the right ...

COPPER MOUNTAIN, B.C. — The explosive detonated ... Nearby, kids learned how to operate heavy machinery and dug for coins in a sandbox among the many interactive activities set up by Hudbay.

The book captures his collection of vintage advertisements, postcards, trade cards, maps, coins, matchboxes ... bubonic plague in 1896 during British colonial rule. The plague, part of the ...

Copper coins facilitated trade across the vast empire ... Whether the Romans’ control of Cypriot copper mines, or Britain’s diverse colonial copper sources during the Industrial Revolution ...

The coin was larger and made of pure copper, while today’s penny is made of copper and zinc. During the colonial period, people used a mixture of coins from other countries. A popular coin was the ...

while today’s penny is made of copper and zinc. During the colonial period, people used a mixture of coins from other countries. A popular coin was the British penny, which our cent is named after.