Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...

Some used pandemic downtime to learn how to crochet or brew a batch of kombucha. In Scotland, many escaped the boredom of lockdown restrictions by taking up metal detecting—so much so the country’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of coins in a bag and laid out on a table. Metal detectorists have discovered a literal pot of buried treasure deep within ...

A newly discovered medieval Chinese coin, the second ever found in England, points to the possible existence of a vast medieval trade route spanning much of the Eastern hemisphere. Discovered via a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The coins collectively weighed around 13 lbs. It only costs a few dollars to buy a tub of bait worms for fishing, but many people ...

Archaeologists discovered a collection of coins thought to be nearly 1,000 years old at the site of a medieval fort in southern Poland. Researchers found 12 silver coins at the fortress, which is ...

An 11th Century Chinese coin has been unearthed in Cheshire. No other Chinese coin from that era has ever been found in Britain. The idea that there was some form of link between Medieval Britain and ...

In a remarkable turn of events, a construction crew in Germany stumbled upon a massive medieval coin hoard while excavating a site for a new pool. This discovery, one of the largest of its kind in ...

The coins are currently being analyzed by experts at the British Museum Pippa Pearce/© The Trustees of the British Museum Shortly after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, a wealthy local buried a trove ...

From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...