A team did just that by showing that Byzantine silver found its way into Anglo Saxon coins by A.D. 700, according to an article in Antiquities. Historians had known for decades that, from around A ...

A metal detectorist discovered a 1,000-year-old gold coin depicting Jesus Christ while exploring the mountains in Vestre Slidre, a municipality in southern Norway. Known as a "histamenon nomisma ...

The Coins. In E. Kogan-Zehavi. A Painted Tomb of the Roman Period at Migdal Ashqelon. ‘Atiqot 37:203–205 (Hebrew). Bijovsky G. 1999b. The Coins. In E. Kogan-Zehavi. Late Roman–Byzantine Remains at ...

At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. As the Eastern Roman Empire emerged after the fall of the West, Byzantine coins were mainly comprised of ...

They said the coins shed light on the end of the Byzantine rule in the area. The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for more than 1,000 years. "We can ...

Byzantine coin found. Credit: Wdecki Park Krajobrazowy The situation took an even more fascinating turn when the archaeologists began detecting coins scattered around the grave. These coins, of ...

the park said. About 30 coins were found in total, some of them dating all the way back to the Roman and Byzantine empires. Researchers are not completely sure how the artifacts were all grouped ...