Experts examined a collection of tiny, ancient coins discovered in Egypt, according to the University of Warsaw. Piotr Jaworski/University of Warsaw More than 1,500 years ago, a thriving harbor town ...

What do a gold coin from Byzantium, a silver drachm from Persia, and a Bedouin trader in pre-Islamic Arabia have in common?

ESNA, EGYPT—Live Science reports that researchers from Egypt’s Supreme Council for Archaeology have found a hoard of coins, molds, and weights used during the minting process behind a temple site near ...

Roughly 7 kilometres off the coast of modern Egypt, beneath the shallow waters of the Bay of Aboukir, lies a city that most of the world has forgotten existed. Known in antiquity as Thonis-Heracleion, ...