Human civilization doesn’t get much more ancient than China ... how people govern to what they eat. China was among the earliest civilizations to mint coins, with some specimens created more ...

The four great inventions of ancient China refer to papermaking, printing, gunpowder, and the compass. They exerted far-reaching impact on the world. In the 8th century, Chinese papermaking ...

MAEBASHI--Archaeologists uncovered an estimated 100,000 ancient coins, some of which are of Chinese origin and are more than 2,000 years old. The coins were tied together in bundles with straw ...

director of world and ancient numismatics at Stack’s Bowers Galleries, in a press statement. Over the past few months, the coins toured different fairs and exhibited at Stack’s Bowers’ galleries. They ...

With his wealth, he became a prolific coin collector, and was a founding member of the Danish Numismatic Society in 1885. For the first sale on September ... of world and ancient numismatics ...

A collection of ancient silver coins was unearthed recently on a small island in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said this week. The treasure trove dates back more than 2,000 years, with the ...

The late Danish butter magnate L.E. Bruun had a curious order in his will that meant his impressive coin collection could not ...

The British Government has taken the rare step of placing an export ban on a single, tiny, ancient gold coin. What separates ... The temporary bar on its sale abroad has been brought in with ...

ROME, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A rare haul of 27 silver Roman coins dated between 94 and 74 ... the Mediterranean and includes the remains of an ancient Greek colony founded in the 7th century BC.

An ancient Greek city in modern-day western Turkey was the setting for the finding of gold coins dating back thousands of years. Researchers led by University of Michigan archaeologist Christopher ...