The coins are thought to have been buried around the time of the Muslim Conquest of the Levantine Byzantine Empire in 635 AD. A cache of 44 pure gold coins from the Byzantine era was recently ...

The 44 solid gold coins dating back to the Byzantine era were discovered at the Hermon Stream Nature Reserve. Israel Antiquities Authority Israeli archaeologists have discovered a secret stash of ...

The site is linked historically with Saint Sabbas, one of the founders of Judean Desert monasticism, whose legacy shaped monastic practices for centuries. The Civil Administration’s Archaeology Unit ...

What it tells us about the past: In 1860, a farmer was tilling a field in central Slovakia when he unearthed a spectacular paneled gold Byzantine crown. For more than a century, experts have argued ...

Archaeologists uncovered a rare Byzantine-era gold hoard in Susita National Park in Israel’s Galilee region, shedding new light on the region’s history during the tumultuous Sassanid-Persian invasions ...

Hundreds of ancient coins, oil lamps and gold jewelry have been discovered in Israel, mysteriously thrown away centuries ago in a Byzantine garbage dump. The excavation site is located on the ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...