Five years after emerging from the grounds of Chelmsford, the U.K.’s largest recorded hoard of ancient gold coins has found a new home. Unearthed by a metal detectorist, the Great Baddow Hoard (named ...

Norway's largest Viking coin hoard features 2,970 silver coins minted in England and Germany, reflecting foreign influence on the late Viking economy.

The collection's careful arrangement is indicative of a “noisy, symbolic acts of deliberate destruction," showing that the Melsonby Hoard was not just a collection of abandoned valuables. The Melsonby ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A remarkable discovery of 2,584 silver coins, dating from the turbulent period of the Norman Conquest of England, has become the ...

Researchers are still analyzing and registering the coins, and the museum said the hoard will likely be studied for years to ...

A history professor with a passion for metal detecting uncovered a hoard of 18 Iron Age gold coins. The coins are the largest known find from the reign of Iron Age king Dubnovellaunos, who ruled the ...

In the popular imagination, the phrase “Viking hoard” might evoke images of plunder stashed by marauding Norse pirates. Or perhaps you picture sacred objects hidden by frantic monks in the uproar of a ...

Archaeologists are one step closer to piecing together the history of the Staffordshire Hoard. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in the West Midlands ...

In the autumn of 2020, I was contacted by the field archaeology unit of the Swedish National Historical Museums, who are also known as the Archaeologists. They were excavating at a Viking-age ...

A hoard of 175 silver coins unearthed in a forest in Italy may have been buried for safe keeping during a Roman civil war. The coins seem to date from 82 B.C., the year the Roman general Lucius ...