The huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold coins recovered from a field ... Gareth Williams, curator of early medieval coins at the British Museum, claims the treasure is the largest coin hoard from ...
The colossal gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena, in the Parthenon on the Acropolis ... The cities of ancient Greece generally used silver for their coins. Gold, with its high value ...
(Frank Maechler/dpa via AP, file) Thieves who broke into a southern German museum and stole hundreds of ancient gold coins got in and out in nine minutes without raising the alarm, officials said ...
Credit: AMNA The reconstructed face of Avgi, a teenager who lived in Mesolithic Greece at around 7,000 BC, stunned viewers in the amphitheater of the Acropolis Museum when it was first unveiled in ...